. {{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|237|233.6|Carnian<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref>}} | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Flugopterus raiblianus | parent_authority = Whitley, 1951 | authority = (Kner, 1866) | synonyms = * ''Megalopterus raiblianus'' <small>Kner, 1866</small> }}
'''''Flugopterus''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the early Carnian stage of the Late Triassic epoch.<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref> It contains a single species, '''''F. raiblianus''''' <small>(Kner, 1887)</small>, previously placed in the genus †''Megalopterus'' <small>Kner, 1866</small> which was found to be preoccupied. It is known from the Raibl Formation of Austria.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Suess |first=Eduard |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Studien_%C3%BCber_die_Gliederung_der_Trias_u/w4w3yureYQcC |title=Studien über die Gliederung der Trias- und Jura-Bildungen in den östlichen Alpen |date=1867 |publisher=Verlag nicht ermittelbar |language=de}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Romano |first1=Carlo |last2=Koot |first2=Martha B. |last3=Kogan |first3=Ilja |last4=Brayard |first4=Arnaud |last5=Minikh |first5=Alla V. |last6=Brinkmann |first6=Winand |last7=Bucher |first7=Hugo |last8=Kriwet |first8=Jürgen |date=2016 |title=Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution (supplementary material) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269406596 |journal=Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=106–147 |doi=10.1111/brv.12161 |issn=1469-185X |pmid=25431138}}</ref> It likely belongs in the order Pholidophoriformes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sirna |first=Giovanni |last2=Vecchia |first2=Fabio Marco Dalla |last3=Muscio |first3=Giuseppe |last4=Piccoli |first4=Giuliano |date=1994 |title=Catalogue of Paleozoic and Mesozoic Vertebrates and Vertebrate localities of the Tre Venezie area (North Eastern Italy) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fabio-Dalla-Vecchia-2/publication/256103736_Catalogue_of_Paleozoic_and_Mesozoic_Vertebrates_and_Vertebrate_localities_of_the_Tre_Venezie_area_North_Eastern_Italy/links/0c960521c7039629f3000000/Catalogue-of-Paleozoic-and-Mesozoic-Vertebrates-and-Vertebrate-localities-of-the-Tre-Venezie-area-North-Eastern-Italy.pdf |journal=Mem. Sci. Geol. |volume=46 |pages=255-281}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35232 |title=Pachycormiformes|publisher=Paleobiology Database|access-date=November 11, 2012}}
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Category:Late Triassic fish of Europe Category:Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley
{{triassic-fish-stub}} Category:Fossils of Austria Category:Fossil taxa described in 1951 Category:Carnian genera Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera