Proscinetes Explained

Proscinetes is an extinct genus of prehistoric pycnodontiform ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.^[1] Proscinetes is the type genus to the subfamily Proscinetinae, whose only other known members are Neoproscinetes, Turbomesodon, Turboscinetes and Thiollierepycnodus.^[2]

Distribution

Fossils of the P. elegans and P. bernardi are both found in Southern Germany and in Cerin, France. P. itieri is also found in Cerin, and P. radiatus is found in Southern England.^[3]

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

Notes and References

1. Sepkoski . Jack . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 364 . 560 . 2002 . 2009-02-27 .
2. Ebert . Martin . 2019 . A new genus of Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic of France and Germany, included in a phylogeny of Pycnodontiformes . . 188 . 2 . 434–454.
3. Ebert . Martin . 2013 . The Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) in the late Jurassic: 1) he genus Proscinetes Gistel, 1848 in the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany) and Cerin (France) . Archaeopteryx . Research Gate.