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Mene purdyi
Extinct species of fish / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mene purdyi an extinct species of ray-finned fish in the genus Mene, from Late Thanetian-aged marine deposits in northern Peru. M. purdyi is currently known only from a single skull and a few post-cranial bones. M. purdyi is among the largest, if not the largest, members of the genus, as the skull suggests that it would have been over 40 centimetres (16 in) in life. The living species, M. maculata, by comparison, grows to an average length of 18 centimetres (7.1 in).
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Mene purdyi | |
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M. maculata (top) and M. purdyi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Carangiformes |
Family: | Menidae |
Genus: | Mene |
Species: | †M. purdyi |
Binomial name | |
†Mene purdyi Friedman & Johnson, 2005 | |
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