Palaeoniscidae
 | This article does not cite any sources. (November 2021) |
| Palaeoniscidae Temporal range: Silurian-Cretaceous
| |
|---|---|
| |
| Palaeoniscum freieslebeni | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Palaeonisciformes |
| Family: | †Palaeoniscidae Vogt, 1852 |
Palaeoniscidae is a family of fish that possessed a bony skeleton and operculum. This group of fish appeared in the Silurian, and died out in the Cretaceous.
See also[]
References[]
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Palaeoniscidae. |
 | This article about a prehistoric ray-finned fish is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
Categories:
- Palaeonisciformes
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish families
- Silurian taxonomic families
- Carboniferous taxonomic families
- Devonian taxonomic families
- Permian taxonomic families
- Triassic taxonomic families
- Jurassic taxonomic families
- Cretaceous taxonomic families
- Silurian first appearances
- Cretaceous extinctions
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish stubs