Asthenocormus
Extinct genus of fishes
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Asthenocormus is an extinct genus of large marine pachycormiform ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, A. titanius.[1] A member of the edentulous suspension feeding clade within the Pachycormiformes, fossils have been found in the Upper Jurassic plattenkalks of Bavaria, Germany.[2][3][4]
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| Fossil of Asthenocormus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pachycormiformes |
| Family: | †Pachycormidae |
| Subfamily: | †Asthenocorminae |
| Genus: | †Asthenocormus Woodward, 1895 |
| Species: | †A. titanius |
| Binomial name | |
| †Asthenocormus titanius (Wagner, 1863) | |
