Coryphaenopsis

Coryphaenopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous.[1][2] It contains a single species, C. brevis, known from the Turonian of the Czech Republic.[3] It was an elopiform related to modern tarpons and ladyfish.[4]

Coryphaenopsis
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Elopiformes
Genus: †Coryphaenopsis
Frič & Bayer, 1902
Species:
†C. brevis
Binomial name
†Coryphaenopsis brevis
Frič & Bayer, 1902

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 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  3. Frič, Antonin; Bayer, František (1902). "NOVÉ RYBY ESKÉHO ÚTVARU KÍDOVÉHO" (PDF). Palaeontographica Bohemiae. C (VII).
  4. de Figueiredo, Francisco Jose (1989). Osteologia e Afinidades Filogenéticas de Paraelops cearensis Silva Santos, 1971 (Pisces, Teleostei, Elopiformes) (PDF) (Thesis). Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
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