Proscinetes
Extinct genus of fishes
Proscinetes is an extinct genus of prehistoric pycnodontiform ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.
Proscinetes is the type genus to the subfamily Proscinetinae, whose only other known members are Neoproscinetes, Turbomesodon, Turboscinetes and Thiollierepycnodus.
01Distribution
Fossils of the P. elegans and P. bernardi are both found in Southern Germany and in Cerin, France. P. itieri is also found in Cerin, and P. radiatus is found in Southern England.
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- Proscinetes cf elegans.jpg by Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0
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