Rhinconichthys
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| Rhinconichthys Temporal range: | |
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| Type specimen of R. uyenoi, displayed at the Nagoya City Science Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pachycormiformes |
| Family: | †Pachycormidae |
| Subfamily: | †Asthenocorminae |
| Genus: | †Rhinconichthys Friedman et al., 2010 |
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Rhinconichthys is an extinct genus of bony fish which existed during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.[2]
Along with its close cousins the great-white-shark-sized or larger Bonnerichthys and the immense Leedsichthys, Rhinconichthys forms a line of giant filter-feeding bony pachycormid fish that swam the Jurassic and Cretaceous seas for over 100 million years.
