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Gyrodus
Temporal range: Rhaetian-Cenomanian
~205.6–94.3 Ma
Gyrodus hexagonus from Solnhofen, Germany
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Gyrodus

Species
  • G. circularis[citation needed]
  • G. cordillera Martill et al., 1998
  • G. cretaceus Agassiz, 1844
  • G. hexagonus[citation needed]
  • G. huiliches Gouiric-Cavalli et al., 2019
  • G. milium Henry, 1876

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
Jurassic
Cretaceous

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Gyrodus at Fossilworks.org

Further reading

  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward