# Plectocretacicus

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{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|99.6|93.5|Lower [Cenomanian](/source/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](/source/ray-finned_fish) that lived during the lower [Cenomanian](/source/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](/source/Tetraodontiformes).

==See also==
{{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}}
* [Prehistoric fish](/source/Prehistoric_fish)
* [List of prehistoric bony fish](/source/List_of_prehistoric_bony_fish)

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

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