| Afrocascudo Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (early Cenomanian), ~
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Subclass: | Neopterygii |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Afrocascudo Brito et al., 2024 |
| Species: | †A. saharaensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Afrocascudo saharaensis Brito et al., 2024
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Afrocascudo is a controversial genus of extinct neopterygian fish, either an ancient loricariid catfish or a juvenile obaichthyid lepisosteiform of the genus Obaichthys. It is known from the Late Cretaceous Douira Formation (Kem Kem Group) of Morocco. The genus contains a single species, A. saharaensis, known from a partial articulated specimen.