Watsonichthys

Watsonichthys; Temporal range: Tournaisian – Asselian? PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Palaeonisciformes
Genus:	†Watsonichthys; Aldinger, 1937
Type species
	†Elonichthys pectinatus; Traquair, 1877
Species
	†W. lotzi Gürich, 1923; †W. pectinatus (Traquair, 1877); †W. sphaerosideritarum Fritsch, 1895;

Watsonichthys is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Tournaisian age (Mississippian, Carboniferous) to possibly the Asselian age (Cisuralian/lower Permian) in what is now Europe (Scotland, Germany, Czech Republic) and possibly Namibia.^[1]^[2] It is named after David Meredith Seares Watson.

References

^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
^ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.

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