Drydenius

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

It contains the following species:

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

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