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Semionotus

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Semionotus
Temporal range: Late Triassic to Earliest Jurassic
Fossils of S. bergeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Ginglymodi
Order: Semionotiformes
Superfamily: Semionotoidea
Family: Semionotidae
Genus: Semionotus
Agassiz, 1843

Semionotus (from Greek: σημιον semion, 'mark' and Greek: νῶτος nôtos, 'back')[1] is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish found throughout Northern Pangaea (North America and Europe) during the late Triassic, becoming extinct in the Early Jurassic.

Fossil slab of S. kapffi mass mortality
Reconstruction of a generalized individual

References

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  1. ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 156. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
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