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Dapediidae
Extinct family of ray-finned fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dapediidae is an extinct family of neopterygian ray-finned fish that lived from the Middle Triassic to Late Jurassic (Ladinian to Tithonian).[1] It is the only family of the order Dapediiformes. Its members were historically placed within the ginglymodian family Semionotidae, but were moved to their own family in 1966.[2]
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Fossil specimen of Dapedium politum | |
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Artist's reconstruction of Sargodon | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Infraclass: | Holostei (?) |
Order: | †Dapediiformes Thies & Waschkewitz, 2016 |
Family: | †Dapediidae Lehman, 1966 |
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