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Oreochima

Oreochima
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pachycormiformes
Family: Archaeomaenidae
Genus: Oreochima
Species: O. ellioti
Binomial name
Oreochima ellioti
Schaeffer & Elliot, 1972


Oreochima ellioti is an archaeomaenid pachycormiform fish from Lower Jurassic-aged freshwater strata of Antarctica. Fossils come from the Lower Jurassic of Storm Peak, Antarctica, where a freshwater lake system once existed.O. ellioti is also notable for being one of three archaeomaenid genera found outside of Australia.


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