Chrotichthys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Perleidiformes |
Genus: | †
Chrotichthys Wade, 1940 |
Species: | †C. gregarius
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Binomial name | |
†Chrotichthys gregarius (
Woodward, 1890)
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Chrotichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived in the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic epoch. [2] [3] It contains a single species, C. gregarius, known from the Terrigal Formation of New South Wales, Australia. [1]
Initially considered the earliest known representative of the " pholidophorid" fishes (as Pholidophorus gregarius), it is now generally considered a perleidiform. [4] [5] [6]
Chrotichthys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Perleidiformes |
Genus: | †
Chrotichthys Wade, 1940 |
Species: | †C. gregarius
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Binomial name | |
†Chrotichthys gregarius (
Woodward, 1890)
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Synonyms | |
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Chrotichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived in the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic epoch. [2] [3] It contains a single species, C. gregarius, known from the Terrigal Formation of New South Wales, Australia. [1]
Initially considered the earliest known representative of the " pholidophorid" fishes (as Pholidophorus gregarius), it is now generally considered a perleidiform. [4] [5] [6]