Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.
Acrotemnus
| Acrotemnus Temporal range:
Turonian, | |
|---|---|
| |
| A. faba holotype, Natural History Museum, London | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
| Family: | †Pycnodontidae |
| Genus: | †Acrotemnus Agassiz, 1836 |
| Type species | |
| †Acrotemnus faba Agassiz, 1836
| |
| Species | |
| |
| Synonyms | |
| |
Acrotemnus is an extinct genus of marine pycnodontid ray-finned fish known from Europe, North America, and Africa during the Turonian stage of the Upper Cretaceous. North American species could reach comparatively giant sizes for pycnodonts.[1]
- ^ Kenshu Shimada, Thomas E. Williamson & Paul L. Sealey (2010). "A new gigantic pycnodont fish from the Juana Lopez Member of the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale of New Mexico, U.S.A.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (2): 598–603. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30..598S. doi:10.1080/02724631003618298. S2CID 129687572.
Previous Page Next Page
