Acentrophorus

Acentrophorus; Temporal range: Permian - Triassic, 259–242 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Semionotiformes
Genus:	†Acentrophorus; Traquair, 1877
Species
	†Acentrophorus abbsii (Kirkby, 1862); †A. altus (Kirkby, 1864); †A. glaphyurus (Agassiz, 1833); †A. varians (Kirkby, 1862);

Acentrophorus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Permian and Triassic periods. Fossils have been found in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom.^[1] It was the oldest known neopterygian.^[2]

References[]

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-23.

^ ^a ^b "†Acentrophorus Traquair 1877 (ray-finned fish)". Fossilworks – Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ "Neopterygii: Semionotiformes". Palaeos. Retrieved 9 March 2017.

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