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Protosphyraena is a
fossil genus of swordfish-like
marine fish, that
thrived worldwide during the
Cretaceous period (Albian-Maastrichtian).
Fossil remains...
- to be the
sister group of the Aspidorhynchiformes.
Reconstruction of
Protosphyraena perniciosa Life
restoration of
Leedsichthys Life
restoration of Ohmdenia...
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pachycormid fish
Protosphyraena; the
English and
Italian species are only
known from
rostral fragments that were
previously ****igned to
Protosphyraena. It is one...
- may even be a
relative of sturgeons. Similarly, the
pachycormid fish
Protosphyraena and the
plethodid fish
Rhamphoichthys from the Late
Cretaceous had both...
- †Australopachycormus
hurleyi †
Protosphyraena...
- Cimolichthys, the saber-toothed
herring Enchodus, and the swordfish-like
Protosphyraena are
represented in the
northern Tethyan margin. The
southern Tethyan...
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Sauropsis Hypsocorminae Australopachycormus Hypsocormus Kaykay Orthocormus Protosphyraena Simocormus Asthenocorminae Asthenocormus Bonnerichthys Germanostomus...
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pectoral fin
spines from fish
similar to "Pelecopterus" (now
known as
Protosphyraena). Karpinsky's 1899
monograph on
Helicoprion noted that the
bizarre nature...
- the
fossil site, and a wide
variety of fish
including swordfish-like
Protosphyraena, as well as the
predatory fishes Pachyrhizodus, Xiphactinus, Ichthyodectes...
- an
extinct genus of
aquatic lizard belonging to the
mosasaur family Protosphyraena, a
fossil genus of swordfish-like
marine fish Protostega, an extinct...
