Pachyrhizodus
Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pachyrhizodus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Cretaceous to Paleocene[1] in what is now Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Many species are known, primarily from the Cretaceous of England and the midwestern United States.[2]
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Pachyrhizodus | |
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Restoration of P. caninus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Crossognathiformes |
Family: | †Pachyrhizodontidae |
Genus: | †Pachyrhizodus Dixon, 1850 |
Type species | |
†Pachyrhizodus basalis Dixon, 1850 | |
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