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Extinct genus of fishes

Trewavasia
Temporal range: Lower Cenomanian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
fossil of T. carinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pycnodontiformes
Family: Coccodontidae
Genus: Trewavasia
White & Moy-Thomas, 1941
Species: T. carinata
Binomial name
Trewavasia carinata
(Davis, 1887)

Trewavasia carinata is an extinct pycnodontid fish in the family Coccodontidae that lived during the lower Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon. It had a large, forward-pointing horn-like spine between its eyes, and a massive stump-like spine emanating from the back of its head. T. carinata is closely related the genera Corusichthys and Hensodon, as well as Coccodus.

Artist's reconstruction

References

  1. L. Taverne; L. Capasso (2014). "Ostéologie et phylogénie des Coccodontidae, une famille remarquable de poissons Pycnodontiformes du Crétacé supérieur marin du Liban, avec la description de deux nouveaux genres". Palaeontos. 25.
  2. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
Pycnodontiformes
Actinopterygii
Neopterygii
Pycnodontiformes
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Pycnodontiformes
Pycnodontiformes
Mesturidae
Brembodontidae
Serrasalmimidae
Coccodontoidea
Gebrayelichthyidae
Coccodontidae
Gladiopycnodontidae
Pycnodontidae
Proscinetinae
Nursalliinae
Pycnodontinae
Hensodon spinosus
Taxon identifiers
Trewavasia


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