# Acrogaster

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|84|72|Late [Santonian](/source/Santonian) to [Campanian](/source/Campanian)<ref name=paleodb>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35772 Acrogaster] - [Paleobiology Database](/source/Paleobiology_Database)</ref>}}
| taxon = Acrogaster
| authority = [Agassiz](/source/Louis_Agassiz), 1839
| type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Acrogaster parvus'''''
| type_species_authority = Agassiz, 1839
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'''''Acrogaster''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of fossil marine [fish](/source/fish) in the order [Trachichthyiformes](/source/Trachichthyiformes), known from the [Late Cretaceous](/source/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](/source/Germany) and [Lebanon](/source/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'' <small>von der Marck, 1863</small> - Late Campanian of Germany
* {{extinct}}''A. daviesi'' <small>Davis, 1887</small> - Late Santonian of Lebanon
* {{extinct}}''A. heckeli'' <small>Pictet, 1850</small> - Late Santonian of Lebanon
* {{extinct}}''A. minutus'' <small>von der Marck, 1863</small> - Late Campanian of Germany
* {{extinct}}''A. parvus'' <small>[Agassiz](/source/Louis_Agassiz), 1839</small> - Late Campanian of Germany
The former species ''A. anceps'' and ''A. dayi'' are now placed in ''[Lissoberyx](/source/Lissoberyx)''.<ref name=":0" />

==References==
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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

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