Brychaetus
Extinct genus of fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brychaetus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bonytongue fish known from the Late Cretaceous to the late Eocene of Europe, North America, and northern Africa.[2]
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Brychaetus muelleri fish head from the Eocene London Clay on the Isle of Sheppey UK | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Osteoglossiformes |
Family: | Osteoglossidae |
Subfamily: | †Phareodontinae |
Genus: | †Brychaetus Woodward, 1901 |
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Synonyms[1] | |
Pomphractus |
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