Corusichthys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
Family: | †Coccodontidae |
Genus: | †Corusichthys Taverne & Capasso, 2014 |
Species: | †C. megacephalus
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Binomial name | |
†Corusichthys megacephalus Taverne & Capasso, 2014
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Corusichthys megacephalus is an extinct pycnodontiform that lived during the lower Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon.[1] C. megacephalus is known from a 34 mm long fossil. It had plates arranged like a helmet around its head, and had a massive, triangular spine on its dorsal side. C. megacephalus is closely related the genera Trewavasia and Hensodon, as well as Coccodus.