Pycnodontoidea

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Pycnodontoids were "deep-bodied and laterally compressed fish" whose tooth morphology suggest that they preyed on small contemporary invertebrates.[1] They may have resembled modern butterfly fish.[1] So far, Morrison pycnodontoids are represented by a single specimen from Dinosaur National Monument in Utah.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Foster, J. (2007). "Pycnodontoidea." Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press. p. 135.
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