Name:
Sphenonectris.
Phonetic: Sfen-o-nek-tris.
Named By: Mark H.V. Wilson & Michael W.
Caldwell - 1998.
Classification: Chordata, Thelodonti,
Furcacaudiformes.
Species: S. turnerae (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Roughly about 15 centimetres long.
Known locations: Canada.
Time period: Early Devonian.
Fossil representation: Almost complete specimen.
Sphenonectris is a genus of thelodontid fish that lived in waters associated with what is now Canada during the early Devonian.
Further reading
- The Furcacaudiformes: a new order of jawless vertebrates with
thelodont scales, based on articulated Silurian and Devonian fossils
from northern Canada. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
Volume 18, no. 1, pp. 10-29. - Mark H.V. Wilson
&
Michael W. Caldwell - 1998.
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