Bobbichthys
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Bobbichthys is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived in what is now Chile during the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch.[1][2][3] It was a member of the Varasichthyidae, a family of potentially crossognathiform fish.[4][5][6]
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Bobbichthys | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Crossognathiformes (?) |
Family: | †Varasichthyidae |
Genus: | †Bobbichthys Arratia, 1986 |
Species: | †B. opercularis |
Binomial name | |
†Bobbichthys opercularis Arratia, 1986 | |
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It was named after paleoichthyologist Bobb Schaefer (1913-2004).[2]