Asarotus
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Scientific classification
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Order:
Asarotiformes
Family:
Asarotidae
Genus:
Asarotus
Type species
Asarotus arcanus
Schaeffer, 1968

Asarotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish from Niobrara Formation, during the Campanian.[1] Type species, A. arcanus is only known from poorly preserved single specimen, which makes hard to classify existing orders of Cretaceous actinopterygians.

References

  1. Schaeffer, Bobb (1968). A new actinopterygian fish from the Cretaceous of North America (PDF). American Museum of Natural History Library. New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History.


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