Scaumenacia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fish}}

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| image = Scaumenacia curta & Bothriolepis canadensis.JPG

| image_caption = Scaumenacia curta & Bothriolepis canadensis

| taxon = Scaumenacia

| authority = Traquair, 1893

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Scaumenacia is an extinct genus of lungfish. It lived around the Devonian in North America alongside another prehistoric lungfish: Fleurantia.{{Cite web |title=Fossilworks: Fleurantia denticulata |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=372954 |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Paleobiology Database}} It lived from approximately 384 to 376 millions of years ago.{{Cite web |title=Fossilworks: Scaumenacia curta |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=372950 |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=Paleobiology Database}}

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| image1 = Scaumenacia curta (fossil lungfish) (cropped).jpg

| caption1 = Scaumenacia curta. Late Devonian, Escuminac Formation, Quebec (Canada). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

| image2 = Scaumenacia curta 56 (cropped).jpg

| caption2 = Scaumenacia curta. Late Devonian, Escuminac Formation, Quebec (Canada). At the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

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