Cumbaaichthys
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| Cumbaaichthys Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 marine polymixiiform ray-finned fish that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch. It contains a single species, C. oxyrhynchus, known from Canada. It is a basal polymixiiform of uncertain familial classification.[1]