Cometicercus

Cometicercus
An artists concept of Cometicercus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Thelodonti
Order:
†Furcacaudiformes
Family:
†Furcacaudidae
Genus:
†Cometicercus
Type species
†Cometicercus talimaaae
Wilson & Caldwell, 1998

Cometicercus is an extinct genus of furcacaudiform thelodont which lived in the Northwest Territories of Canada during the Early Devonian period. It hails from the MOTH locality in the Mackenzie Mountains. It is only known from its caudal fin and parts of its dorsal surface, including its dorsal fin.[1]

References

  1. ^ Wilson, Mark V. H.; Caldwell, Michael W. (1998-04-10). "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. 18 (1): 10–29. doi:10.1080/02724634.1998.10011031. ISSN 0272-4634. JSTOR 4523870.


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