Ctenodus
Appearance
Ctenodus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Dipnoi |
Family: | †Ctenodontidae |
Genus: | †Ctenodus Agassiz, 1838[1] |
Ctenodus (from Greek: κτείς kteis, 'comb' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth')[2] is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish and the longest-surviving genus of Carboniferous lungfish.
References
[edit]- ^ Sharp, E. L.; Clack, J. A. (July 2013). "A review of the Carboniferous lungfish genus Ctenodus Agassiz, 1838 from the United Kingdom, with new data from an articulated specimen of Ctenodus interruptus Barkas, 1869". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (2): 169–204. doi:10.1017/S1755691013000479. S2CID 129223529.
- ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 38. Retrieved 29 December 2021.