*** Welcome to piglix ***

Pachyrhizodus

Pachyrhizodus
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Pachyrhizodus caninus skeletons.JPG
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 
  • Pachyrhizodus caninus Cope, 1872
  • Pachyrhizodus etayoi Páramo, 1997
  • Pachyrhizodus leptopsis Cope, 1874
  • Pachyrhizodus minimus Stewart, 1899

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


...
Wikipedia

...