Cretatriacanthidae

Cretatriacanthidae is an extinct family of prehistoric ray-finned fish.

Cretatriacanthidae Temporal range: 83–70 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Cretatriacanthidae Tyler & Sorbini, 1996[1]
Genera
Cretatriacanthus Slovenitriacanthus

Genera

Cretatriacanthus Tyler & Sorbini, 1996[1]
Slovenitriacanthus Tyler & Križnar, 2013[2]

References

Tyler, James C.; Sorbini, Lorenzo (1996). "New Superfamily and Three New Families of Tetraodontiform Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The Earliest and Most Morphologically Primitive Plectognaths" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 82: 1–59.
James C. Tyler; Matija Križnar (2013). "A new genus and species, Slovenitriacanthus saksidai, from southwestern Slovenia, of the Upper Cretaceous basal tetraodontiform fish family Cretatriacanthidae (Plectocretacicoidea)" (PDF). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. 37: 45–56.

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