Pachyrhizodus

Pachyrhizodus
Temporal range: Cenomanian-Danian
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Restoration of P. caninus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Crossognathiformes
Family: Pachyrhizodontidae
Genus: Pachyrhizodus
Dixon, 1850
Type species
Pachyrhizodus basalis
Dixon, 1850
Other species
  • P. caninus Cope, 1872
  • P. curvatus Loomis, 1900
  • P. dibleyi Loomis, 1900
  • P. etayoi Páramo, 1997
  • P. grawi Bartholomai, 2012
  • P. kingi Cope, 1872
  • P. leptognathus Stewart, 1898
  • P. leptopsis Cope, 1874
  • P. minimus Stewart, 1899
  • P. subulidens Owen, 1842

Pachyrhizodus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Cretaceous to Paleocene in what is now Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Many species are known, primarily from the Cretaceous of England and the midwestern United States.