Carangodes
Genus of fishes (fossil)
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Carangodes is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, C. bicornis, from the famous Monte Bolca site in Italy. It is the only known member of the extinct scombriform family Carangodidae. [1][2][3][4][5]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | †Carangodidae Blot, 1969 |
| Genus: | †Carangodes Heckel, 1856 |
| Species: | †C. bicornis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Carangodes bicornis (Volta, 1796) | |
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