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Protosphyraena is a
fossil genus of swordfish-like
marine fish, that
thrived worldwide during the
Cretaceous period (Albian-Maastrichtian).
Fossil remains...
-
pachycormid fish
Protosphyraena; the
English and
Italian species are only
known from
rostral fragments that were
previously ****igned to
Protosphyraena. It is one...
- to be the
sister group of the Aspidorhynchiformes.
Reconstruction of
Protosphyraena perniciosa Life
restoration of
Leedsichthys Life
restoration of Ohmdenia...
- †Australopachycormus
hurleyi †
Protosphyraena...
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Australopachycormus as a
junior synonym of
Protosphyraena,
describe the
first specimens of
Protosphyraena from the
Albian of the
North Caucasus, and interpret...
-
Protosphyraena...
- Cimolichthys, the saber-toothed
herring Enchodus, and the swordfish-like
Protosphyraena are
represented in the
northern Tethyan margin. The
southern Tethyan...
- Like the
related Protosphyraena, it
possessed an
elongated rostrum.
Recent studies have
recovered it as a
junior synonym of
Protosphyraena because of their...
- Cimolichthys, Saurocephalus, Saurodon, Gillicus, Ichthyodectes, Xiphactinus,
Protosphyraena and Martinichthys; and the
sharks Cretoxyrhina, Cretolamna, Scapanorhynchus...
- may even be a
relative of sturgeons. Similarly, the
pachycormid fish
Protosphyraena and the
plethodid fish
Rhamphoichthys from the Late
Cretaceous had both...
