Ctenurella

Ctenurella
Temporal range: Late Devonian
fossil of C. gladbachensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Ptyctodontida
Family: Ptyctodontidae
Genus: Ctenurella
Ørvig, 1960
Type species
Ctenurella gladbachensis
Ørvig, 1960

Ctenurella (from Greek: κτείς kteis, 'comb' and Greek: ουρά ourá, 'tail')[1] is an extinct genus of ptyctodont placoderm from the Late Devonian of Germany. The first fossils were found in the Strunde valley in the Paffrather Kalkmulde.

  1. ^ Ørvig, Tor (November 1960). "New Finds of Acanthodians, Arthrodires, Crossopterygians, Ganoids and Dipnoans in the Upper Middle Devonian Calcareous Flags (Oberer Plattenkalk) of the Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath Trough: Part 1". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 34 (3–4): 312. doi:10.1007/bf02986872.