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Gyrodus (from Template:Lang-el gyros, 'curved' and Template:Lang-el odoús 'tooth')[1] is an extinct genus of pycnodontiform ray-finned fish that lived from the late Triassic (Rhaetian) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian).
Distribution
Fossils of Gyrodus have been found in:[2]
- Triassic
- Franche-Comté, France
- Jurassic
- Quehita and Quebrada Formations, Chile
- Canjuers-Les Bessons quarry and Fumel, France
- Painten Formation and Liegende Bankkalk Formation, Germany
- Sot de Chera Formation, Spain
- Calcareous Grit Formation, England
- Cretaceous
- Agrio Formation, Argentina
- Ashville Formation, Canada
- Zapata Formation, Chile
- Baharîje Formation, Egypt
- Douiret Formation, Tunisia
- West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation, England
Gallery
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Gyrodus hexagonus
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Gyrodus circularis
References
- ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 74. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ Gyrodus at Fossilworks.org
Further reading
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward
Categories:
- Pycnodontiformes genera
- Triassic bony fish
- Jurassic bony fish
- Cretaceous bony fish
- Rhaetian genus first appearances
- Cenomanian genus extinctions
- Cretaceous fish of Africa
- Fossils of Egypt
- Fossils of Tunisia
- Cretaceous United Kingdom
- Fossils of England
- Triassic France
- Jurassic France
- Fossils of France
- Jurassic Germany
- Fossils of Germany
- Jurassic Spain
- Fossils of Spain
- Cretaceous fish of North America
- Cretaceous Canada
- Fossils of Canada
- Late Triassic fish of Europe
- Jurassic fish of Europe
- Cretaceous fish of Europe
- Jurassic fish of South America
- Cretaceous fish of South America
- Cretaceous Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Jurassic Chile
- Cretaceous Chile
- Fossils of Chile
- Fossil taxa described in 1843
- Taxa named by Louis Agassiz