Histiothrissa

Histiothrissa; Temporal range: Santonian to Campanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Specimen of H. macrodactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Genus:	†Histiothrissa; Woodward, 1901
Type species
	†Sardinius macrodactylus; von der Marck, 1858
Species
	†H. crassapinna (Davis, 1889); †H. macrodactyla (von der Marck, 1858);

Histiothrissa is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine clupeiform ray-finned fish known from the Late Cretaceous of Europe & the Middle East.^[1]^[2]

It contains the following species:^[2]^[3]

H. crassapinna (Davis, 1889) - Santonian of Lebanon (Sahel Alma)
H. macrodactyla (von der Marck, 1858) (type species) - Campanian of Germany (Ahlen Formation)^[4]

References

1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
1 2 Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
↑ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Archived from the original on 2021-12-05. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
↑ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Archived from the original on 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2026-05-29.

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