Langbahn Team – Weltmeisterschaft

Scaumenacia

Scaumenacia
Scaumenacia curta & Bothriolepis canadensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Dipnoi
Family: Phaneropleuridae
Genus: Scaumenacia
Traquair, 1893

Scaumenacia is an extinct genus of lungfish. It lived around the Devonian in North America alongside another prehistoric lungfish: Fleurantia.[1] It lived from approximately 384 to 376 millions of years ago.[2]

Scaumenacia curta. Late Devonian, Escuminac Formation, Quebec (Canada). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
Scaumenacia curta. Late Devonian, Escuminac Formation, Quebec (Canada). At the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

See also

References