Gyrodus
Appearance
Gyrodus Temporal range:
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Life restoration of Gyrodus hexagonus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
Family: | †Pycnodontidae |
Genus: | †Gyrodus Agassiz, 1843 |
Species | |
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Gyrodus (from Greek: γύρος gyros, 'curved' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth')[1] is an extinct genus of pycnodontiform ray-finned fish that lived from the middle Jurassic (Bajocian) to the middle Cretaceous (Barremian).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 74. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ Kriwet, Jürgen; Schmitz, Lars (2005). "New insight into the distribution and palaeobiology of the pycnodont fish Gyrodus". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50 (1): 49–56.
Further reading
[edit]- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
Categories:
- Pycnodontiformes genera
- Jurassic bony fish
- Cretaceous bony fish
- Cretaceous fish of Africa
- Fossils of Egypt
- Fossils of Tunisia
- Cretaceous United Kingdom
- Fossils of England
- Jurassic France
- Fossils of France
- Jurassic Germany
- Fossils of Germany
- Jurassic Spain
- Fossils of Spain
- Cretaceous fish of North America
- Cretaceous Canada
- Fossils of Canada
- Jurassic fish of Europe
- Cretaceous fish of Europe
- Jurassic fish of South America
- Cretaceous fish of South America
- Cretaceous Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Jurassic Chile
- Cretaceous Chile
- Fossils of Chile
- Fossil taxa described in 1843
- Taxa named by Louis Agassiz