| Protriacanthus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | †Protriacanthidae Tyler & Sorbini, 1996 |
| Genus: | †Protriacanthus d'Erasmo, 1946 |
| Species: | †P. gortanii |
| Binomial name | |
| †Protriacanthus gortanii d'Erasmo, 1946 | |
Protriacanthus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, P. gortanii.
Sources
- Tyler, James C.; Sorbini, Lorenzo (1996). "New Superfamily and Three New Families of Tetraodontiform Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The Earliest and Most Morphologically Primitive Plectognaths" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 82 (82): 1–59. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.82.1.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Protriacanthus | |
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