Scleracanthus

Scleracanthus is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth lobe-finned fish.[1][2][3] It lived during the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Spitsbergen, Svalbard.[4][3]

Scleracanthus
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sarcopterygii
Order:
Actinistia
Family:
†Coelacanthidae
Genus:
†Scleracanthus

Stensiö, 1921
Binomial name
†Scleracanthus asper
Stensiö, 1921

The type and only species, Scleracanthus asper, was collected from the Lusitaniadalen Member of the Vikinghøgda Formation and is therefore Smithian (early Olenekian) in age.[3][4]

See also

References
  1. Forey, Peter (1998). History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-412-78480-4.
  2. Jordan, David Starr (1923). A Classification of Fishes. Stanford University Press.
  3. Stensiö, Erik (1921). Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen. Vienna: Adolf Holzhausen. pp. xxviii + 307. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.159141. S2CID 83338211.
  4. Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
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