Acrogaster

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | fossil_range = {{fossil range|84|72|Late Santonian to Campanian<ref name=paleodb>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35772 Acrogaster] - Paleobiology Database</ref>}} | taxon = Acrogaster | authority = Agassiz, 1839 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Acrogaster parvus''''' | type_species_authority = Agassiz, 1839 | taxon_ref = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}

'''''Acrogaster''''' is a genus of fossil marine fish in the order Trachichthyiformes, known from the Late Cretaceous period.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/BA.HTM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418135659/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/BA.HTM |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2008 |title=Nature(A) |publisher=The Probert Encyclopaedia |accessdate=November 19, 2012 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=Alison M. |date=2014 |title=Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada |url=https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/25439 |journal=Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology |language=en |volume=1 |pages=101–115 |doi=10.18435/B5CC78 |issn=2292-1389|doi-access=free }}</ref> Species are known from Germany and Lebanon.<ref name=paleodb/>

==Species== The following species are known:<ref name=paleodb/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=Alison M. |date=2014 |title=Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada |url=https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/25439 |journal=Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology |language=en |volume=1 |pages=101–115 |doi=10.18435/B5CC78 |issn=2292-1389|doi-access=free }}</ref> * {{extinct}}''A. brevicostatus'' von der Marck, 1863 - Late Campanian of Germany * {{extinct}}''A. daviesi'' Davis, 1887 - Late Santonian of Lebanon * {{extinct}}''A. heckeli'' Pictet, 1850 - Late Santonian of Lebanon * {{extinct}}''A. minutus'' von der Marck, 1863 - Late Campanian of Germany * {{extinct}}''A. parvus'' Agassiz, 1839 - Late Campanian of Germany The former species ''A. anceps'' and ''A. dayi'' are now placed in ''Lissoberyx''.<ref name=":0" />

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Trachichthyiformes Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Taxa named by Louis Agassiz Category:Fossils of Germany Category:Fossils of Lebanon Category:Late Cretaceous bony fish Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Asia Category:Cretaceous fish of Europe Category:Santonian genus first appearances Category:Campanian genus extinctions Category:Fossil taxa described in 1839