Dinichthys

Dinichthys
Temporal range: Late Devonian: Famennian, 371.1–359.3 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Clade: Phlyctaenioidei
Suborder: Brachythoraci
Clade: Eubrachythoraci
Clade: Pachyosteomorphi
Clade: Aspinothoracidi
Genus: Dinichthys
Newberry, 1868
Species
  • Dinichthys herzeri Newberry, 1868 (type)
Synonyms
  • Ponerichthys Miller, 1892

Dinichthys (from Greek: δεινός deinós, 'terrible' and Greek: ἰχθύς ichthys 'fish') is an extinct monospecific genus of large marine arthrodire placoderm from the Late Devonian (Famennian stage) measuring around 3 metres (9.8 ft) long.[1] Fossils were recovered from the Ohio Shale Formation along the Olentangy River in Delaware County, Ohio.

  1. ^ Bashford Dean (1895). Fishes, Living and Fossil: An Outline of Their Forms and Probable Relationships. Macmillan and Company. p. 130. Retrieved 28 August 2022.