Bananogmius
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Bananogmius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that was found in what is now North America and Europe during the Late Cretaceous, from the Cenomanian to the Santonian.[1] It lived in the Western Interior Seaway, which split North America in two during the Late Cretaceous, as well as the proto-North Sea of Europe.[2][3][4]
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Artist's impression of B. aratus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Tselfatiiformes |
Family: | †Plethodidae |
Genus: | †Bananogmius Whitley, 1940 |
Type species | |
†Anogmius aratus Cope, 1877 | |
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