Plectocretacicus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|99.6|93.5|Lower Cenomanian<ref name="sepkoskidb" />}} | grandparent_authority = Tyler & Sorbini, 1996<ref name="TylerSorbini1996">{{cite journal|first1=James C.|last1=Tyler|first2=Lorenzo|last2=Sorbini|year=1996|title=New Superfamily and Three New Families of Tetraodontiform Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The Earliest and Most Morphologically Primitive Plectognaths|url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/1998/-0082-Lo_res.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y|journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology|volume=82|issue=82|pages=1–59|doi=10.5479/si.00810266.82.1}}</ref> | parent_authority = Sorbini, 1979 | taxon = Plectocretacicus clarae | authority = Sorbini, 1979 }}

'''''Plectocretacicus''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian 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 }}</ref> It contains a single species, '''''P. clarae'''''. ''Plectocretacicus'' may be the earliest known member of the order Tetraodontiformes.

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Late Cretaceous fish Category:Tetraodontiformes Category:Prehistoric fish of Africa Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera