Corusichthys
Extinct genus of fishes
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Corusichthys is an extinct marine pycnodontiform that lived during the Late Cretaceous of what is now Lebanon. It contains a single species, C. megacephalus from the late Cenomanian-aged Haqel site of the Sannine Formation.[1][2][3]
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| Holotype specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
| Family: | †Coccodontidae |
| Genus: | †Corusichthys Taverne & Capasso, 2014 |
| Species: | †C. megacephalus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Corusichthys megacephalus Taverne & Capasso, 2014 | |
C. megacephalus is known from a 34 mm long fossil. It had plates arranged like a helmet around its head, and had a massive, triangular spine on its dorsal side.[1] C. megacephalus is closely related the genera Trewavasia and Hensodon, as well as Coccodus.[1][4][5]
