Asiatoceratodus

Asiatoceratodus is an extinct genus of lungfish which lived during the Middle-Late Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods in what is now Asia, Africa and South America.

Species

''Asiatoceratodus sharovi''

Complete skeletons of Asiatoceratodus sharovi first described by Vorobyeva from the Middle-Late Triassic deposits of Fergana valley in Kyrgyzstan. This species is characterizes by toothed plates with 4 to 5 crests.

''Asiatoceratodus tiguidiensis''

Another species originally was described from the Late Jurassic site of Algeria as Ceratodus tiguidiensis Later, C. tiguidiensis was assigned to Arganodus by M. Martin and reassigned by Kemp to the genus Asiatoceratodus. Despite this, some authors uses Arganodus tiguidiensis in their articles. A. tiguidiensis was also found in the Late Jurassic Tacuarembo Formation of Uruguay, the northwestern Ethiopian plateau of latest Jurassic age, the Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation of Niger, the Early Late Cretaceous assemblage of Southeastern Morocco and the Cenomanian Alcântara Formation of Brazil.