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genus Ichthyodectes,
established by
Edward Drinker Cope in 1870.
Ichthyodectiforms are
usually considered to be some of the
closest relatives of the...
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Fossil of the
Cretaceous †
ichthyodectiform †Thrissops formosus...
- Mesoclupea)
among this
taxonomic order in 2024. He
argued that
diagnostic ichthyodectiforms should preserve the
uroneurals in
lateral position and have two separated...
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Gillicus was a
relatively small, 2
metres (6.6 ft) long
ichthyodectiform ray-finned fish that
lived in
central North America (Western
Interior Seaway)...
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larger individuals with
lengths over 27 m (89 ft). The
largest known of
ichthyodectiform fish was Xiphactinus,
which measured up to 6.1 m (20 ft) long. Ichthyodectes...
- ISBN 978-1-4051-4449-0. Patterson, C.; Rosen, D. E. (1977). "Review of
ichthyodectiform and
other Mesozoic teleost fishes, and the
theory and
practice of classifying...
- 004. PMID 18761282. Patterson, C.; Rosen, D.E. (1977). "Review of
ichthyodectiform and
other Mesozoic teleost fishes, and the
theory and
practice of classifying...
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mechanics of
Neoclinus blanchardi are
similar to
those of the
extinct ichthyodectiform Dugaldia emmilta,
indicating a
shared evolutionary adaptation for maximizing...
- ("branch") and κύκλος/kýklos ("circle")) is an
extinct genus of
marine ichthyodectiform ray-finned fish from the
middle Cretaceous. It was a
predator of about...
- Xiphactinus. Some
phylogenetic studies have
recovered it as an
indeterminate ichthyodectiform, but
later ones have
found it to
either be a
sister of Unamichthys...
