Coryphaenopsis
Extinct genus of fishes
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Coryphaenopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous.[1][2] It contains a single species, C. brevis, known from the Turonian of the Czech Republic.[3] It was an elopiform related to modern tarpons and ladyfish.[4]
| Coryphaenopsis Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Elopiformes |
| Genus: | †Coryphaenopsis Frič & Bayer, 1902 |
| Species: | †C. brevis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Coryphaenopsis brevis | |
