Aipichthyoides

Aipichthyoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian in what is now the West Bank.[1][2] Formerly classified in the Polymixiiformes, it is now thought to be a distant relative of oarfish and opahs.

Aipichthyoides
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: †Aipichthyoididae
Genus: †Aipichthyoides
Gayet, 1980
Species:
†A. galeatus
Binomial name
†Aipichthyoides galeatus
Gayet, 1980

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See also

References
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
  3. Davesne, Donald; Friedman, Matt; Barriel, Véronique; Lecointre, Guillaume; Janvier, Philippe; Gallut, Cyril; Otero, Olga (2014-09-02). "Early fossils illuminate character evolution and interrelationships of Lampridiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 172 (2): 475–498. doi:10.1111/zoj.12166. ISSN 0024-4082.
  4. Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Than-Marchese, Bruno Andrés (2012). "A Cenomanian aipichthyoid fish (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) from America, Zoqueichthys carolinae gen. and sp. nov. from El Chango quarry (Cintalapa Member, Sierra Madre Formation), Chiapas, Mexico". Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 29 (3): 735–748. ISSN 1026-8774.


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