Thiollierepycnodus

Thiollierepycnodus
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian–Tithonian
Life reconstruction of Thiollierepycnodus wagneri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Pycnodontiformes
Family: †Pycnodontidae
Subfamily: †Proscinetinae
Genus: †Thiollierepycnodus
Ebert (2020)
Species
  • †T. wagneri

Thiollierepycnodus is an extinct genus of pycnodontid fish from the Jurassic of France and Germany. The animal was originally assigned to the genus Pycnodus, but it was given its own genus in 2020. Thiollierepycnodus was 25 cm long, with a laterally flat body and comparatively large fins, indicating that it was a reef fish of considerable manoeuvrability. Its durophagous dentition strongly suggests a diet of hard-shelled organisms. It contains a single species, Thiollierepycnodus wagneri.[1]

  1. ^ Ebert, Martin (2020). "A new genus of Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic of France and Germany, included in a phylogeny of Pycnodontiformes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (2): 434–454.