Wadeichthys
| Wadeichthys Temporal range: Lower Cretacetous
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| W. oxyops and Koonwarria | |
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| Genus: | Wadeichthys
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| Species: | W. oxyops
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| Wadeichthys oxyops Waldman, 1971
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Wadeichthys oxyops is an extinct archaeomaenid bony fish from the Koonwarra Lake fauna of Lower Cretaceous Victoria, Australia. If the related pachycormiform Koonwarria is regarded as being in a different family, then W. oxyops is the only known Cretaceous-aged archaeomaenid.
See also
External links
- Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
- "Pachycormiformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
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