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| Order: | Asarotiformes |
| Family: | Asarotidae |
| Genus: | Asarotus |
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| 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
- ↑ 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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