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| Tetragonolepis Temporal range: Rhaetian to Middle Hettangian | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Dapediiformes |
| Family: | †Dapediidae |
| Genus: | †Tetragonolepis Bronn, 1830 |
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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 Rhaetian–Hettangian ages (latest Triassic to earliest Jurassic).
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
Sources
[edit]- In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods by Nicholas C. Fraser and Hans-Dieter Sues
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