Cretatriacanthus

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Cretatriacanthus
Temporal range: Campanian to Maastrichtian, 70 Ma
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Cretatriacanthus

Tyler & Sorbini, 1996[1]
Species:
C. guidotti
Binomial name
Cretatriacanthus guidotti
Tyler & Sorbini, 1996[1]

Cretatriacanthus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, C. guidotti.

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  1. ^ a b Tyler, James C.; Sorbini, Lorenzo (1996). "New Superfamily and Three New Families of Tetraodontiform Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The Earliest and Most Morphologically Primitive Plectognaths" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 82 (82): 1–59. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.82.1.