''Prototroctes vertex'' is an extinct species of

bony fish Osteichthyes ( ; ), also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a Biodiversity, diverse clade of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. They can be contrasted with the Chondricht ...

in the genus ''

Prototroctes ''Prototroctes'' is a genus of New Zealand smelts containing one species native to Australia and another, now extinct, species that was native to New Zealand. The two species in this genus appear to have diverged from one another during the Mio ...

''. It existed in what is now New Zealand in the early

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...

epoch. It was described by Werner Schwarzhans, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Jennifer P. Worthy and Trevor H. Worthy in 2012.

References

vertex Miocene fish Fish described in 2012 Fossil taxa described in 2012 Cenozoic fish of Oceania Fish of New Zealand {{osmeriformes-stub