Greenwoodella
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | †Crossognathiformes |
| Family: | †Pachyrhizodontidae |
| Genus: | †Greenwoodella Taverne & Ross, 1973 |
| Species: | †G. tockensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Greenwoodella tockensis Taverne & Ross, 1973 | |
Greenwoodella is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish from the Early Cretaceous of Europe.[1] It contains a single species, G. tockensis, from the Aptian of Helgoland Island, Germany.[2][3] It is the oldest known member of the family Pachyrhizodontidae.[2]
References
- ↑ "Greenwoodella". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
- 1 2 Taverne, Louis (1991). "Greenwoodella tockensis TAVERNE and ROSS, 1973 from the marine Lower Aptian (Töck) of Helgoland (West Germany), the oldest known pachyrhizodontid fish (Teleostei, Crossognathiformes)". Geologisches Jahrbuch. Reihe A, Allgemeine und regionale Geologie BR Deutschland und Nachbargebiete, Tektonik, Stratigraphie, Paläontologie (120): 305–309. ISSN 0341-6399.
- ↑ Taverne, Louis; Capasso, Luigi (2019), Osteology of Cavinichthys pachylepis gen. and sp. nov. (Teleostei, Crossognathiformes, Pachyrhizodontidae) from Pietraroja (Lower Cretaceous, Campania, south Italy), University of Salento, doi:10.1285/I15910725V41P53, retrieved 2026-03-31
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