Tanyrhinichthys Temporal range: Kasimovian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Genus: | †Tanyrhinichthys Gottfried, 1987 |
Type species | |
†Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri Gottfried, 1987
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Tanyrhinichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish with a lengthened rostrum that lived during the Kasimovian (Missourian) age (Upper Pennsylvanian, Upper Carboniferous) in what is now New Mexico, United States.[1] Fossils were recovered from Tinajas Member of the Atrasado Formation (Kinney Brick Quarry).[1]