Drydenius

Drydenius
Temporal range: Serpukhovian to Bashkirian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Genus: †Drydenius
Traquair, 1890
Species
  • †D. insignis Traquair, 1890
  • †D. molyneuxi (Traquair, 1888)

Drydenius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the early-mid Carboniferous of the United Kingdom.[1] It is one of a number of early fish genera long placed in the likely paraphyletic order Palaeonisciformes.[2]

It contains the following species:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  2. ^ GARDINER, BRIAN G.; SCHAEFFER, BOBB; MASSERIE, JUDY A. (2005-08-01). "A review of the lower actinopterygian phylogeny". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 144 (4): 511–525. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00181.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
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