- period.
Fossils are
known from
North America,
North Africa, and Europe.
Plethodids possessed thin, angelfish-like
bodies and
often had high
dorsal fins which...
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Smoky Hill
Chalk A
plethodid Pentanogmius P.
evolutus Smoky Hill
Chalk A
plethodid Martinichthys M.
brevis Smoky Hill
Chalk A
plethodid M.
xiphoides Smoky...
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Rhamphoichthys is an
extinct genus of billfish-like
plethodid ray-finned fish from Late
Cretaceous (Cenomanian). It
contains one
valid species, R. taxidiotis...
- Samuel. L. A.; Norton, Jack L. (2023-08-08). "Youngest
occurrence of a
plethodid fish (Teleostei: Tselfatiiformes: Plethodidae) from the Maastrichtian...
- of sturgeons. Similarly, the
pachycormid fish
Protosphyraena and the
plethodid fish
Rhamphoichthys from the Late
Cretaceous had both
convergently evolved...
- few
species still lived in the
Campanian in the Gulf of
Mexico and only
plethodids survived until the end of Maastrichtian. The
genera and
species of the...
-
Martinichthys is an
extinct genus of
plethodid fish from the
Cretaceous of
North America. It is
known from the
Niobrara Chalk, in
which it is exceedingly...
-
evolutus Manitoba.
Pembina Member. An
articulated skull (MDM F75.05.06). A
plethodid,
originally reported as
Bananogmius evolutus.
Protosphyraena P. gladius...
-
defining Bananogmius and must
instead represent a
different genus of
plethodid fish. In follow-up publications,
Taverne officially includes both "B."...
-
species like B.
evolutus later reclassified as Pentanogmius. As with many
plethodids,
Bananogmius had a thin body
reminiscent of the
modern angelfish, dozens...
