Pachyrhizodus

Pachyrhizodus; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Pachyrhizodus caninus skeletons
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Superclass:	Osteichthyes
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Elopiformes
Suborder:	Elopoidei
Family:	Pachyrhizodontidae; Cope, 1872
Genus:	Pachyrhizodus; Dixon, 1850
Species
	Pachyrhizodus caninus Cope, 1872; Pachyrhizodus etayoi Páramo, 1997; Pachyrhizodus leptopsis Cope, 1874; Pachyrhizodus minimus Stewart, 1899;

Pachyrhizodus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway in North America and in Colombia, South America.

References

^ Mike Everhart (February 2, 2010). "Pachyrhizodus. A Large Predatory Fish from the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Sea". Oceans of Kansas Paleontology. Retrieved May 5, 2011.

Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils by Rex Buchanan

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