Extinct genus of fishes
Gyrodus
Temporal range: Bajocian–Barremian
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Gyrodus hexagonus from Solnhofen, Germany
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Gyrodus
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- G. circularisAgassiz, 1833
- G. cordillera Martill et al., 1998
- G. cretaceus Agassiz, 1844
- G. hexagonusde Blainville, 1818
- G. huiliches Gouiric-Cavalli et al., 2019
- G. milium Henry, 1876
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Gyrodus (from Greek: γύρος gyros, 'curved' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth')[1] is an extinct genus of pycnodontiform ray-finned fish that lived from the middle Jurassic (Bajocian) to the middle Cretaceous (Barremian).[2]
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Gyrodus hexagonus
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Gyrodus circularis
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- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
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Brembodontidae | |
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Serrasalmimidae |
- Damergouia
- Diastemapycnodus
- Eoserrasalmimus
- Polygyrodus
- Serrasalmimus
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Coccodontoidea | |
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Pycnodontidae | | Proscinetinae | |
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Nursalliinae | |
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Pycnodontinae | |
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