Biology:Sardinioides

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes

Sardinioides
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Campanian) 83.6–72.1 Ma
Sardinioides crassicaudus 54.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
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 Myctophiformes order, and considered a sister group to Paleogene and modern neoscopelids and myctophids.[1]

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