Palaeoniscidae

Palaeoniscidae is a family of fish that possessed a bony skeleton and operculum. This group of fish appeared in the Silurian, and died out in the Cretaceous.

Palaeoniscidae
Temporal range: Silurian-Cretaceous
Palaeoniscum freieslebeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Palaeonisciformes
Family: Palaeoniscidae
Vogt, 1852

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