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Extinct genus of fishes

Gyrodus
Temporal range: Bajocian–Barremian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Life restoration of Gyrodus hexagonus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Pycnodontiformes
Family: †Pycnodontidae
Genus: †Gyrodus
Agassiz, 1843
Species
  • G. circularisAgassiz, 1833
  • G. cordillera Martill et al., 1998
  • G. cretaceus Agassiz, 1844
  • G. hexagonusde Blainville, 1818
  • G. huiliches Gouiric-Cavalli et al., 2019
  • G. milium Henry, 1876

Gyrodus (from Greek: γύρος gyros, 'curved' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') is an extinct genus of pycnodontiform ray-finned fish that lived from the middle Jurassic (Bajocian) to the middle Cretaceous (Barremian).

References

  1. Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 74. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  2. Kriwet, Jürgen; Schmitz, Lars (2005). "New insight into the distribution and palaeobiology of the pycnodont fish Gyrodus". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50 (1): 49–56.

Further reading

  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
Pycnodontiformes
Actinopterygii
Neopterygii
Pycnodontiformes
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Pycnodontiformes
Pycnodontiformes
Mesturidae
Brembodontidae
Serrasalmimidae
Coccodontoidea
Gebrayelichthyidae
Coccodontidae
Gladiopycnodontidae
Pycnodontidae
Proscinetinae
Nursalliinae
Pycnodontinae
Hensodon spinosus
Taxon identifiers
Gyrodus
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