Pachyrhizodus

Pachyrhizodus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Pachyrhizodus caninus skeletons
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Osteichthyes
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Elopiformes
Suborder: Elopoidei
Family: Pachyrhizodontidae
Cope, 1872
Genus: Pachyrhizodus
Dixon, 1850
Species [1]
  • Pachyrhizodus caninus Cope, 1872
  • Pachyrhizodus etayoi Páramo, 1997
  • Pachyrhizodus leptopsis Cope, 1874
  • Pachyrhizodus minimus Stewart, 1899

Pachyrhizodus is an extinct genus of bony fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway in North America and in Colombia, South America.

Fossil
Restoration

References

  1. Mike Everhart (February 2, 2010). "Pachyrhizodus. A Large Predatory Fish from the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Sea". Oceans of Kansas Paleontology. Retrieved May 5, 2011.

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