Pachyrhizodus
Pachyrhizodus | |
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Pachyrhizodus caninus skeletons | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Osteichthyes |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Elopiformes |
Suborder: | Elopoidei |
Family: | Pachyrhizodontidae Cope 1872 |
Genus: | Pachyrhizodus Dixon 1850 |
Species [1] | |
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Pachyrhizodus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway in North America and in Colombia, South America. The type species is P. basalis.[2] The species P. etayoi, described in 1997 by María Páramo from the La Frontera Formation in Colombia, was named honouring Colombian geologist and paleontologist Fernando Etayo.
Gallery
- Fossil with gut content
- Restoration of P. caninus and P. minimus
References
- ↑ Mike Everhart (February 2, 2010). "Pachyrhizodus. A Large Predatory Fish from the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Sea". Oceans of Kansas Paleontology. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
- ↑ Pachyrhizodus at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography
- Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
- Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils by Rex Buchanan
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