Gonatodus
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Gonatodus is an extinct genus of palaeonisciform
fish
that lived during the Tournaisian
stage of the Mississippian epoch. It is a member of the family Elonichthyidae.
Palaeonisciformes
Palaeonisciformes is an extinct order of early ray-finned fishes . It is not a natural group, but is instead a paraphyletic assemblage of the early members of several ray-finned fish lineages...
fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
that lived during the Tournaisian
Tournaisian
The Tournaisian is in the ICS geologic timescale the lowest stage or oldest age of the Mississippian, the oldest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Tournaisian age lasted from 359.2 ± 2.5 Ma to 345.3 ± 2.1 Ma...
stage of the Mississippian epoch. It is a member of the family Elonichthyidae.
See also
- Prehistoric fishPrehistoric fishPrehistoric fish refers to early fish that are known only from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the first and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Tertiary. The study of prehistoric fish is called paleoichthyology...
- List of prehistoric bony fish