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Beerichthys
Extinct genus of fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beerichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, Beerichthys ingens, that was a member of the Ypresian London Clay fauna of lower Eocene England.[1]
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Beerichthys | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Acanthuriformes |
Family: | Luvaridae |
Genus: | †Beerichthys Casier, 1966 |
Species: | †B. ingens |
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†Beerichthys ingens Casier, 1966 | |
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It is known only from a series of incomplete skulls. When originally described in 1966, B. ingens was placed in a monotypic family, "Beerichthyidae," within Iniomi. Later, more (also incomplete) skulls were studied by Colin Patterson, who determined that the fish was a louvar, an assessment supported with further CT scanning of its fossils.[2][3]