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Sardinioides

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Extinct genus of fishes

Sardinioides
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Campanian) 83.6–72.1 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Myctophiformes
Family: †Sardinioididae
Genus: †Sardinioides
Marck, 1858
Species
  • †S. monasterii (Agassiz, 1835)
  • †S. crassicaudus (Marck, 1863)
  • †S. macrophthalmus (von der Marck and Schlüter, 1863)

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.

References

  1. 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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Taxon identifiers
Sardinioides
Sardinoides


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