Gyrodus
Gyrodus | |
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Gyrodus hexagonus from Kelheim, Germany | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Pycnodontiformes |
Family: | Pycnodontidae |
Genus: | Gyrodus |
Species | |
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Gyrodus is an extinct genus of pycnodontiform ray-finned fish that lived from the late Triassic (Rhaetian) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian).
Distribution
Fossils of Gyrodus have been found in:[1]
- Triassic
- Franche-Comté, France
- Jurassic
- Quehita and Quebrada Formations, Chile
- Canjuers-Les Bessons quarry and Fumel, France
- Painten Formation and Liegende Bankkalk Formation, Germany
- Sot de Chera Formation, Spain
- Calcareous Grit Formation, England
- Cretaceous
- Ashville Formation, Canada
- Zapata Formation, Chile
- Baharîje Formation, Egypt
- Douiret Formation, Tunisia
- West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation, England
Gallery
- Gyrodus hexagonus
- Gyrodus circularis
References
- ↑ Gyrodus at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
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