Drydenius

Drydenius; Temporal range: Serpukhovian to Bashkirian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Genus:	†Drydenius; Traquair, 1890
Species
	†D. insignis Traquair, 1890; †D. molyneuxi (Traquair, 1888);

Drydenius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the early-mid Carboniferous of the United Kingdom.^[1] It is one of a number of early fish genera long placed in the likely paraphyletic order Palaeonisciformes.^[2]

It contains the following species:^[1]

D. insignis Traquair, 1890 - Serpukhovian of Scotland (Limestone Coal Formation)
D. molyneuxi (Traquair, 1888) (type species) - Late Bashkirian (Westphalian) of England and Wales (Pennine Coal Measures) (=Gonatodus molyneuxi Traquair, 1888)

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