Ichthyokentema ("fish-goad") is an extinct genus of stem-teleost fish that lived during the Late Jurassic. It contains one species, I. purbeckensis, which is known from the Purbeck Group of Dorset, England.[1][2] I. purbeckensis was originally described as a species of Pholidophorus by William Davies in 1887,[3] but was moved to its own genus by Arthur Smith Woodward in 1941.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Ichthyokentemidae |
| Genus: | †Ichthyokentema Woodward, 1941 |
| Species: | †I. purbeckensis
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| †Ichthyokentema purbeckensis (Davies, 1887) [originally Pholidophorus]
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See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Woodward, A. S. (1941). "VIII.— The Mesozoic Ganoid Fishes of the Genus Pholidophorus Agassiz". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 8 (44): 88–91. doi:10.1080/03745481.1941.9727955.
- ^ Sepkoski, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Davies, W. (1887). "I.—On New Species of Pholidophorus from the Purbeck Beds of Dorsetshire". Geological Magazine. 4 (8): 337–339. Bibcode:1887GeoM....4..337D. doi:10.1017/S0016756800193914. S2CID 129013028.
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