Egertonia
Extinct genus of fishes
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Elopiformes |
Genus: | †Egertonia Cocchi, 1866 |
Egertonia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.[1] The earliest occurrences of the genus in the fossil record are from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar and India.[2]
See also
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Halliday, Thomas (2016). "New record of Egertonia (Elopiformes, Phyllodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of South India". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (2): 287–294. doi:10.1002/spp2.1040. S2CID 130394142.
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