Ichthyodectes
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A fossil specimen of Ichthyodectes anaides |
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| Upper Chalk | ||||||||||||
| 99.6 to 70.6 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Ichthyodectes | ||||||||||||
| Cope , 1870 |
Ichthyodectes (fish biters) is an extinct genus of large predatory fish from the Upper Cretaceous .
features
Ichthyodectes was over two meters long. The body was slender and elongated, the head small, the gap in the mouth deeply cut. The small dorsal fin was located in the back of the body, the anal fin was slightly larger and stood slightly in front of the dorsal fin. The pectoral fins and pelvic fins were small and narrow, the pectoral fins slightly longer than the pelvic fins. The caudal fin was very large and deeply forked, its lobes were narrow.
species
- Ichthyodectes acanthicus
- Ichthyodectes anaides
- Ichthyodectes ctenodon
- Ichthyodectes goodeanus
literature
- KA Frickhinger: Fossils Atlas Fish , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, 1999, ISBN 3-88244-018-X
Web links
Commons : Ichthyodectes - collection of images, videos and audio files
- The Paleobiology Database: Ichthyodectes