Protoscaphirhynchus
Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus is an extinct sturgeon from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It is known from a single poorly preserved specimen found in the Maastrichtian aged Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Due to its poor preservational state, it has few diagnostic characters.
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acipenseriformes |
| Family: | Acipenseridae |
| Genus: | †Protoscaphirhynchus Wilimovsky, 1956 |
| Species: | †P. squamosus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus Wilimovsky, 1956 | |
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