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Scaumenacia

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Extinct genus of fish
Scaumenacia
Scaumenacia curta & Bothriolepis canadensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Dipnoi
Family: Phaneropleuridae
Genus: Scaumenacia
Traquair, 1893

Scaumenacia is an extinct genus of lungfish. It lived around the Devonian in North America alongside another prehistoric lungfish: Fleurantia .[1] It lived from approximately 384 to 376 millions of years ago.[2]

Scaumenacia curta. Late Devonian, Escuminac Formation, Quebec (Canada). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
Scaumenacia curta. Late Devonian, Escuminac Formation, Quebec (Canada). At the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

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References

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Gnathostomata
Dipnomorpha
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Porolepiformes
Uranolophidae
Dipnorhynchidae
Stomiahykidae
Chirodipteridae
Holodontidae
Dipteridae
Fleurantiidae
Rhynchodipteridae
Phaneropleuridae
Uronemidae
Neoceratodontidae
Ceratodontidae
Gnathorhizidae
Lepidosirenidae


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