Acrognathus
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Acrognathus (from Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang"., 'high' and Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang". 'jaw')[1] is an extinct genus[2] of ray-finned fish belonging to the order Aulopiformes.[3] Although no extensive systematic analysis has been performed, it is tentatively placed with the greeneyes in the family Chlorophthalmidae, making it the oldest representative of that family.[4]
The following species are known:[3]
- A. boops Agassiz, 1836 (late Cenomanian/Coniacian to Turonian of the United Kingdom)[5]
- A. dodgei Hay, 1903 (late Cenomanian of Lebanon)
- A. libanicus Woodward, 1901 (late Cenomanian of Lebanon)
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- Chlorophthalmidae
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
- Late Cretaceous fish of Asia
- Cretaceous fish of Europe
- Cenomanian genus first appearances
- Turonian genus extinctions
- Late Cretaceous bony fish
- Fossils of England
- Fossils of Lebanon
- Fossil taxa described in 1836
- Taxa named by Louis Agassiz