Africentrum
| Africentrum Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Holocentriformes |
| Family: | Holocentridae |
| Subfamily: | Myripristinae |
| Genus: | †Africentrum White and Moy-Thomas, 1941 |
| Species: | †A. melitense
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| Binomial name | |
| †Africentrum melitense (Woodward, 1887)
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Africentrum is an
Upper Miocene subepoch of what is now Malta. It contains a single species, A. melitense.[2][1][3] It has been either recovered as the sister genus to Myripristis or in a polytomy with all the other genera in the subfamily.[4][5]
See also
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
- ISSN 0016-7568.
- ISSN 0014-3820.
- ISSN 1477-2019.
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