Spratticeps

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

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| taxon = Spratticeps

| authority = Patterson, 1970

| type_species = †Spratticeps gaultinus

| type_species_authority = Patterson, 1970

}}

Spratticeps is an extinct genus of clupeiform fish which existed in what is now England during the lower Cretaceous period.{{cite journal |author=Colin Patterson |year=1970 |title=A clupeomorph fish from the Gault (Lower Cretaceous) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=161–182 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1970.tb00733.x}} It contains the species Spratticeps gaultinus.

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Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera

Category:Cretaceous bony fish

Category:Cretaceous fish of Europe

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