Sardinioides

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Sardinioides
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Campanian) 83.6–72.1  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Myctophiformes
Family:† Sardinioididae
Genus:† Sardinioides
Marck, 1858
Species
  • †S. monasterii(Agassiz, 1835)
  • †S. crassicaudus(Marck, 1863)
  • †S. macrophthalmus(von der Marck and Schlüter, 1863)

Sardinioides is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Campanian. It is a member of the order Myctophiformes, and considered a sister group to Paleogene and modern neoscopelids and myctophids. [1]

References

  1. ↑ Dietze, Kathrin (June 2009). "Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of certain neoteleostean fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of Sendenhorst, Germany" . Cretaceous Research. 30 (3): 559–574. Bibcode:2009CrRes..30..559D. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.11.001.


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