Biology:Asthenocormus

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes

Asthenocormus
Temporal range: Callovian- Early Tithonian[1]
Asthenocormus titanius 4545.jpg
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Asthenocormus

Woodward 1895
Binomial name
Asthenocormus titanius
(Wagner, 1863)
Restoration

Asthenocormus is an extinct genus of pachycormiform ray-finned fish.[1] A member of the edentulous suspension feeding clade within the Pachycormiformes, fossils have been found in the Upper Jurassic plattenkalks of Bavaria, Germany.[2]

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-02-27. 
  2. Maxwell, Erin; Lambers, Paul; Lopez-Arbarello, Adriana; Schweigert, Günter (2020). "Re-evaluation of pachycormid fishes from the Late Jurassic of Southwestern Germany". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65. doi:10.4202/app.00749.2020. ISSN 0567-7920. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4810837 entry