Pachyrhizodus
| Pachyrhizodus | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
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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.