Aipichthyoides

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Aipichthyoides
Temporal range: Lower Cenomanian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Aipichthyoididae
Genus: Aipichthyoides
Gayet, 1980
Species:
A. galeatus
Binomial name
Aipichthyoides galeatus
Gayet, 1980

Aipichthyoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine

bony fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian in what is now the West Bank.[1][2] Formerly classified in the Polymixiiformes, it is now thought to be a distant relative of oarfish and opahs
.

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See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
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