Sardinioides
Sardinioides Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Campanian) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Myctophiformes |
Family: | †Sardinioididae |
Genus: | †Sardinioides Marck, 1858 |
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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
[edit]- ^ 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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