Trewavasia Temporal range:
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fossil of T. carinata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
Family: | †Coccodontidae |
Genus: | †Trewavasia White & Moy-Thomas, 1941 |
Species: | †T. carinata
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Binomial name | |
†Trewavasia carinata (Davis, 1887)
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Trewavasia carinata is an extinct pycnodontid fish in the family Coccodontidae[1] that lived during the lower Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon.[2] It had a large, forward-pointing horn-like spine between its eyes, and a massive stump-like spine emanating from the back of its head. T. carinata is closely related the genera Corusichthys and Hensodon, as well as Coccodus.