Ctenodus

Ctenodus
Temporal range: Tournaisian–Moscovian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Dipnoi
Family: Ctenodontidae
Genus: Ctenodus
Agassiz, 1838[1]

Ctenodus (from Greek: κτείς kteis, 'comb' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth')[2] is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish and the longest-surviving genus of Carboniferous lungfish.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sharp, E. L.; Clack, J. A. (July 2013). "A review of the Carboniferous lungfish genus Ctenodus Agassiz, 1838 from the United Kingdom, with new data from an articulated specimen of Ctenodus interruptus Barkas, 1869". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (2): 169–204. doi:10.1017/S1755691013000479. S2CID 129223529.
  2. ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 38. Retrieved 29 December 2021.