Proscinetes

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Tithonian
~{{fossil_range|149|145}}

| image = Proscinetes cf elegans.jpg

| image_caption = Proscinetes cf elegans

| taxon = Proscinetes

| authority = Gistel, 1848

| synonyms =

• Microdon Agassiz (1833)
• Polypsephis Hay (1899)

| subdivision =

• P. elegans
• P. bernardi
• P. itieri
• P. radiatus

}}

Proscinetes is an extinct genus of prehistoric pycnodontiform ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 364 |page=560 | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | accessdate = 2009-02-27 }}

File:Proscinetes.png

Proscinetes is the type genus to the subfamily Proscinetinae, whose only other known members are Neoproscinetes, Turbomesodon, Turboscinetes and Thiollierepycnodus.{{Cite journal |last=Ebert |first=Martin |date=2019 |title=A new genus of Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic of France and Germany, included in a phylogeny of Pycnodontiformes |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/188/2/434/5601911?login=false#198931046 |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=188 |issue=2 |pages=434–454}}