Hiodon woodruffi Temporal range: Ypresian
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Hiodon woodruffi fossil SRIC collection | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Hiodontiformes |
Family: | Hiodontidae |
Genus: | Hiodon |
Species: | †H. woodruffi
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Binomial name | |
†Hiodon woodruffi (Wilson, 1978)
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Synonyms | |
Eohiodon woodruffi Wilson, 1978 |
Hiodon woodruffi is an extinct species of bony fish in the mooneye family, Hiodontidae. The species is known from fossils found in the early Eocene deposits of northern Washington state in the United States and late Eocene deposits in northwestern Montana. The species was first described as Eohiodon woodruffi. H. woodruffi is one of two Eocene Okanagan Highlands mooneye species, and one of five fish identified in the Klondike Mountain Formation.