Fleurantia
| Fleurantia Temporal range: Middle Frasnian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Dipnoi |
| Family: | †Fleurantiidae |
| Genus: | †Fleurantia Graham-Smith & Westoll, 1937 |
| Species: | †F. denticulata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Fleurantia denticulata Graham-Smith & Westoll, 1937
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Fleurantia is a genus of prehistoric marine lungfish which lived during the Devonian period of North America.[1] It contains a single species, F. denticulata, known from several partially articulated specimens from the Escuminac Formation of Quebec, Canada.[2][3] Potential remains of Fleurantia have also been recovered from the Devonian-aged Red Hill locality of Nevada, USA.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fossilworks: Fleurantia denticulata". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ^ Graham-Smith, W.; Westoll, T. S. (1937). "VIII.—On a New Long-headed Dipnoan Fish from the Upper Devonian of Scaumenac Bay, P.Q., Canada". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 59 (1): 241–266. doi:10.1017/S0080456800004749. ISSN 2053-5945.
- ^ Marshall, Charles R. (1986). "A list of fossil and extant dipnoans". Journal of Morphology. 190 (S1): 15–23. doi:10.1002/jmor.1051900405. ISSN 1097-4687.
- ^ Reed, John Wallace (1985). "Devonian Dipnoans from Red Hill, Nevada". Journal of Paleontology. 59 (5): 1181–1193. ISSN 0022-3360.
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