Cyttoides Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Zeiformes |
Family: | Cyttidae |
Genus: | † Cyttoides Wettstein, 1886 |
Species: | †C. glaronensis |
Binomial name | |
†Cyttoides glaronensis Wettstein, 1886 | |
Cyttoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Oligocene epoch in the western Paratethys Sea over Europe. It contains a single species, C. glaronensis from the Matt Formation of Canton Glarus, Switzerland. It was a zeiform related to the extant genus Cyttus . [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The modern king dory (Cyttus traversi) was briefly classified into the genus Cyttoides, but was reclassified back when that genus was found to be preoccupied by C. glaronensis. [6]
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