Aipichthyoides Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Family: | †Aipichthyoididae |
Genus: | †Aipichthyoides Gayet, 1980 |
Species: | †A. galeatus
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Binomial name | |
†Aipichthyoides galeatus Gayet, 1980
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Aipichthyoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian in what is now the West Bank.[1][2] Formerly classified in the Polymixiiformes, it is now thought to be a distant relative of oarfish and opahs.