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Ichthyodectidae
| Description | The family Ichthyodectidae (literally "fish-biters") is an extinct family of marine actinopterygian fish. Sometimes classified in the primitive bony fish order Pachycormiformes, they are now placed in their own order, Ichthyodectiformes, within the superorder Osteoglossomorpha. The type genus is Ichthyodectes, established by Edward Drinker Cope in 1870. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyodectidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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| Rank | family | |||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Ichthyodectidae | |||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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| Scientific Name | Ichthyodectidae | |||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyodectidae |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Cladocyclus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Faugichthys genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Garganoichthys genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ghrisichthys genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Gillicus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Heckelichthys genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ichthyodectes genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Xiphactinus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Anaedophagon tenuidens species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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