Goudkoffia
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| Goudkoffia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Cohort: | Euteleostei |
| Genus: | †Goudkoffia David, 1946 |
| Species: | †G. delicata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Goudkoffia delicata David, 1946 | |
Goudkoffia is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous epoch.[1] It is only known from isolated fossil scales recovered from drill cores in the Moreno and Panoche Formations of southern California, US.[2]
It was initially described in the order Salmoniformes, but the assignment of most former Cretaceous "salmoniforms" to this order is now disputed.[3]
