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Cumbaaichthys

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Cumbaaichthys
Temporal range: Turonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Polymixiiformes
Genus: Cumbaaichthys
Species:
C. oxyrhynchus
Binomial name
Cumbaaichthys oxyrhynchus
Murray, 2016

Cumbaaichthys is an extinct genus of polymixiiform that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch.

Distribution

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Cumbaaichthys oxyrhynchus is known from Lac le Bois in the Northwest Territories.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Murray, Alison M. (2016). "Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada". Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology. 1 (1): 101–115. doi:10.18435/b5cc78.