Protautoga

Protautoga
Temporal range: Mid Miocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: †
Leidy 1873
Species
  • P. conidens Leidy 1873 (type)
  • P. longidens Alessandri 1896

Protautoga is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish, that lived in the Middle Miocene.[1] Fossils have been found in the Paraná Formation of Argentina and the Calvert Formation of Virginia, USA.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ Protautoga at Fossilworks.org


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