Tetragonolepis

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Tetragonolepis
Temporal range: Rhaetian to Middle Hettangian
Fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Dapediidae
Genus: Tetragonolepis
Bronn, 1830
Species
  • Tetragonolepis discus
  • Tetragonolepis semicincta

Tetragonolepis (from Greek: τετρα tetra, 'four', Greek: γονή gonḗ, 'angle', and Greek: λεπίς lepis 'scale')[1] is an extinct genus of bony fish belonging to the family Dapediidae that lived during the RhaetianHettangian ages (latest Triassic to earliest Jurassic).

Reconstruction of T. semicincta

References

  1. Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 170. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

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