Xyne
Extinct genus of fishes
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Xyne is an extinct genus of prehistoric herring that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.[1] Fossils are known from the Dicalite Quarry and Diatom Hill in California.[2]
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Clupeidae |
| Genus: | †Xyne Gilbert, 1919 |
| Species: | †X. grex |
| Binomial name | |
| †Xyne grex Gilbert, 1919 | |
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