Atopocephala is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Middle Triassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. watsoni from the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa. A potential indeterminate species was known from the Timezgadiouine Formation of Morocco, but is now considered an indeterminate actinopterygian.[1][2][3][4]
| Atopocephala Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Redfieldiiformes |
| Family: | †Brookvaliidae |
| Genus: | †Atopocephala Brough, 1934 |
| Species: | †A. watsoni
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| †Atopocephala watsoni Brough, 1934
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ Schaeffer, Bobb. "On the relationships of the Triassic-Liassic redfieldiiform fishes. American Museum novitates ; no. 2795". Biodiversity Heritage Library. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ Khalloufi, Bouziane; Jalil, Nour-Eddine (2020). "Overview of the Late Triassic (Carnian) actinopterygian fauna from the Argana Basin (Morocco)". Comptes Rendus. Géoscience. 352 (6–7): 495–513. doi:10.5802/crgeos.34. ISSN 1778-7025.
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