Proscinetes

Proscinetes is an extinct genus of prehistoric pycnodontiform ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.[1]

Life reconstruction of Proscinetes elegans

Proscinetes
Temporal range: Tithonian
~
Proscinetes cf elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Pycnodontiformes
Family:
Pycnodontidae
Subfamily:
Proscinetinae
Genus:
Proscinetes
Species
  • P. elegans
  • P. bernardi
  • P. itieri
  • P. radiatus
Synonyms

Microdon Agassiz (1833)
Polypsephis Hay (1899)

Proscinetes is the type genus to the subfamily Proscinetinae, whose only other known members are Neoproscinetes, Turbomesodon, Turboscinetes and Thiollierepycnodus.[2][3]

Distribution

Fossils of the P. elegans and P. bernardi are both found in Southern Germany and in Cerin, France. P. itieri is also found in Cerin, and P. radiatus is found in Southern England.[2]

See also

References
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. Ebert, Martin (2013). "The Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) in the late Jurassic: 1) he genus Proscinetes Gistel, 1848 in the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany) and Cerin (France)". Archaeopteryx – via Research Gate.
  3. Ebert, Martin (2019). "A new genus of Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic of France and Germany, included in a phylogeny of Pycnodontiformes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (2): 434–454.


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