Tripelta

Extinct genus of fishes

Tripelta
Temporal range: Anisian[1]
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perleidiformes
Genus:
Tripelta

Wade, 1939
Binomial name
Tripelta dubia
(Woodward, 1890)

Tripelta is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Anisian age (Middle Triassic epoch) in what is now New South Wales, Australia.[2]

Fossils are derived from the Sydney sandstone. The type and only species, Tripelta dubia, was first described as Peltopleurus dubius by Arthur Smith Woodward, but Robert Thompson Wade later erected the new genus Tripelta for this species.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
  2. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  3. ^ Wade, Robert T. (1939). "The Triassic fishes of Gosford, New South Wales". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 73 (4): 206–217. doi:10.5962/p.360274. S2CID 259736659..
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