Pachyrhizodus
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| Pachyrhizodus caninus skeletons | |
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| Family: | Pachyrhizodontidae Cope 1872
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| Genus: | Pachyrhizodus Dixon 1850
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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. The type species is P. basalis.[2] The species P. etayoi, described in 1997 by María Páramo from the La Frontera Formation in Colombia, was named honouring Colombian geologist and paleontologist Fernando Etayo.
Gallery
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Fossil with gut content -
Restoration of P. caninus and P. minimus
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.
- ^ Pachyrhizodus at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography
- 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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Categories:
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
- Cretaceous bony fish
- Late Cretaceous fish of North America
- Cretaceous Canada
- Fossils of Canada
- Cretaceous United States
- Mooreville Chalk
- Late Cretaceous animals of South America
- Prehistoric fish of South America
- Cretaceous Colombia
- Fossils of Colombia
- Fossil taxa described in 1850
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish stubs