Orthocormus

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Orthocormus
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pachycormiformes
Family: Pachycormidae
Genus: Orthocormus
Weitzel,1930
Type species
Orthocormus cornutus
Weitzel,1930
Species
  • Orthocormus cornutusWeitzel, 1930
  • Orthocormus teyleriLambers, 1988
  • Orthocormus roeperiArratia & Schultze, 2013

Orthocormus is an extinct genus of prehistoric pachycormiform bony fish. [1] It is known from three species found in Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) aged plattenkalk deposits in Bavaria, Germany. [2] The species " Hypsocormus" tenuirostris Woodward 1889 from the late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Oxford Clay is not closely related to the type species of Hypsocormus, and is more closely related to Orthocormus + Protosphyraena , and thus has sometimes been referred to in open nomenclature as Orthocormus? tenuirostris. [3]

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