Aipichthyoides
Appearance
Aipichthyoides Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Family: | †Aipichthyoididae |
Genus: | †Aipichthyoides Gayet, 1980 |
Species: | †A. galeatus
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Binomial name | |
†Aipichthyoides galeatus Gayet, 1980
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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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
- ISSN 0024-4082.
- ISSN 1026-8774.