Opsithrissops
Extinct genus of fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Opsithrissops is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Thanetian stage of the Paleocene epoch. It is a 120 centimetres (3.9 ft) fish[2] in the family Osteoglossiformes which includes other bony-tongues such as the extant species of arowana and arapaima.[3]
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Opsithrissops osseus Danilchenko, 1968 |
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