Metaceratodus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

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| fossil_range = Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous,
{{fossilrange|221.5|66|earliest=Norian}} Norian-Maastrichtian

| taxon = Metaceratodus

| authority = Chapman, 1914

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Metaceratodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish in the family Ceratodontidae, with an indeterminate specimen known from the Late Triassic (Norian)-aged Lissauer Breccia of Poland{{Cite journal|last1=Czepiński |first1=Ł. |last2=Dróżdż |first2=D. |last3=Szczygielski |first3=T. |last4=Tałanda |first4=M. |last5=Pawlak |first5=W. |last6=Lewczuk |first6=A. |last7=Rytel |first7=A. |last8=Sulej |first8=T. |title=An Upper Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrate Assemblage from the Forgotten Kocury Locality (Poland) with a New Aetosaur Taxon |year=2021 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=e1898977 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2021.1898977 |bibcode=2021JVPal..41E8977C |s2cid=233522981 }} and more complete specimens known from the Late Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia and Argentina (Malargue Group).{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=140023|title=Fossilworks: Metaceratodus|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=17 December 2021}}{{Cite journal|last=Kemp|first=A.|date=1997-04-16|title=Four species of Metaceratodus (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi, Family Ceratodontidae) from Australian Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=17|issue=1|pages=26–33|doi=10.1080/02724634.1997.10010949|bibcode=1997JVPal..17...26K |issn=0272-4634}}Gonzalez Riga, B. J. (1999). Hallazgo de vertebrados fósiles en la Formación Loncoche, Cretácico Superior de la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina. Ameghiniana 36:401-410 The genus was named and described by Frederick Chapman in 1914.Chapman, F. (1914). Australasian Fossils. A Students’ Manual of Palaeontology 1-341Chapman, F. (1914) Australian Fossils. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and London. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59074 Project Gutenberg eBook 59074]