Trewavasia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|99.6|93.5|Lower Cenomanian}}

| image = Trewavasia_carinata.JPG

| image_caption = fossil of T. carinata

| genus = Trewavasia

| parent_authority = White & Moy-Thomas, 1941

| species = carinata

| authority = (Davis, 1887)

}}

Trewavasia carinata is an extinct pycnodontid fish in the family Coccodontidae{{cite journal |author1=L. Taverne |author2=L. Capasso |year=2014 |title=Ostéologie et phylogénie des Coccodontidae, une famille remarquable de poissons Pycnodontiformes du Crétacé supérieur marin du Liban, avec la description de deux nouveaux genres |journal=Palaeontos |volume=25 |url=http://www.palaeontos.be/25/det25.htm }} that lived during the lower Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon.{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 363 |pages = 1–560 | year = 2002 | url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class | access-date = 2009-02-27 }} It had a large, forward-pointing horn-like spine between its eyes, and a massive stump-like spine emanating from the back of its head. T. carinata is closely related the genera Corusichthys and Hensodon, as well as Coccodus.

File:Trewavasia carinata.jpg