Crossopholis

Crossopholis
Temporal range: Ypresian
Crossopholis magnicaudatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acipenseriformes
Family: Polyodontidae
Genus: Crossopholis
Cope, 1883[1]
Type species
Crossopholis magnicaudatus
Cope, 1883[2]

Crossopholis is an extinct fish known from the early Eocene (Ypresian) of North America, approximately 52 million years ago. It is a close relative of the contemporary American paddlefish, belonging to the paddlefish family Polyodontidae.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference fossilworks was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Arthur Smith Woodward (1895). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the orders Chondrostei (concluded), Protospondyli, Aetheospondyli, and Isopondyli (in part). order of the Trustees.