Protoscaphirhynchus

<i>Protoscaphirhynchus</i>

Protoscaphirhynchus

Extinct genus of fishes

Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus is an extinct sturgeon from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It is known from a single poorly preserved specimen found in the Maastrichtian aged Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Due to its poor preservational state, it has few diagnostic characters.[1]

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  1. [1]
    Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2006). "Review of the Fossil Record of Sturgeons, Family Acipenseridae (Actinopterygii: Acipenseriformes), from North America". Journal of Paleontology. 80 (4): 672–683. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.530.9300. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[672:ROTFRO]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4095104. S2CID 53583501.


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