Tetragonolepis Temporal range: Rhaetian to Middle Hettangian
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Dapediiformes |
Family: | †Dapediidae |
Genus: | †Tetragonolepis Bronn, 1830 |
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Tetragonolepis (from Greek: τετρα tetra, 'four', Greek: γονή gonḗ, 'angle', and Greek: λεπίς lepis 'scale')[1] is an extinct genus of bony fish belonging to the family Dapediidae that lived during the Rhaetian–Hettangian ages (latest Triassic to earliest Jurassic).