Extinct genus of fishes
Elonichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish known from the late Paleozoic. The genus "sensu stricto" contains three species known from the latest Carboniferous to the earliest Permian of freshwater ecosystems of Europe, but as a former wastebasket taxon, it contains many more dubiously-classified species from the Carboniferous and Permian of Europe, Greenland, South Africa, and North America.
Species.
The following are species within "Elonichthys sensu stricto":
Former species.
The following are more dubious species that were formerly classified into this genus. However, the majority have been found to no longer even be members of Elonichthyidae.
The following other dubious species are also known:
References.
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