Greenwoodella
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| Greenwoodella Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Crossognathiformes |
| Family: | †Pachyrhizodontidae |
| Genus: | †Greenwoodella Taverne & Ross, 1973 |
| Species: | †G. tockensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Greenwoodella tockensis Taverne & Ross, 1973 | |
Greenwoodella is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish from the Early Cretaceous of Europe.[1] It contains a single species, G. tockensis, from the Aptian of Helgoland Island, Germany.[2][3] It is the oldest known member of the family Pachyrhizodontidae.[2]
