Biology:Macropycnodon

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Macropycnodon
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Macropycnodon

Shimada et al., 2010
Species
  • M. streckeri (Hibbard, 1939)
  • M. megafrendodon Shimada et al., 2010

Macropycnodon is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish which existed in New Mexico during the upper Cretaceous period.[1]

References

  1. Kenshu Shimada, Thomas E. Williamson & Paul L. Sealey (2010). "A new gigantic pycnodont fish from the Juana Lopez Member of the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale of New Mexico, U.S.A.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 598–603. doi:10.1080/02724631003618298. Bibcode2010JVPal..30..598S. 

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