Protautoga
Protautoga Temporal range: Mid Miocene
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Family: | Labridae
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Genus: | Protautoga Leidy 1873
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Protautoga is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish, that lived in the Middle Miocene.[2] Fossils have been found in the of Argentina and the Calvert Formation of Virginia.[3]
See also[]
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References[]
- ^ Perciformes - Paleobiology Database
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Protautoga at Fossilworks.org
Categories:
- Prehistoric perciform genera
- Miocene fish
- Prehistoric fish of North America
- Miocene United States
- Prehistoric fish of South America
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 1873
- Prehistoric perciform stubs