Sardinioides

Sardinioides
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Campanian)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Myctophiformes
Family: †Sardinioididae
Genus: †
Marck, 1858
Species
  • †S. monasterii (Agassiz, 1835)
  • †S. crassicaudus (Marck, 1863)
  • †S. macrophthalmus (von der Marck and Schlüter, 1863)

Sardinioides is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Campanian. It is a member of the order Myctophiformes, and considered a sister group to Paleogene and modern neoscopelids and myctophids.[1]

References

  1. ^ Dietze, Kathrin (June 2009). "Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of certain neoteleostean fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of Sendenhorst, Germany". Cretaceous Research. 30 (3): 559–574. Bibcode:2009CrRes..30..559D. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.11.001.


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