Cheirothrix

Cheirothrix (meaning "hand hair") is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish.

Cheirothrix
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Cheirothricidae
Genus: Cheirothrix
Pictet & Humbert, 1866
Species[1]
  • C. guestphalicus
    von der March & Schlüter, 1868
  • C. lewisii
    Davis, 1887
  • C. libanicus
    Pictet & Humbert, 1866

One of the species in this genus is Cheirothrix lewisii, known from the Late Cretaceous of Lebanon.[2]

References

  1. Dietze, K. (2009). "Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of certain neoteleostean fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of Sendenhorst, Germany". Cretaceous Research. 30 (3): 559–574. Bibcode:2009CrRes..30..559D. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.11.001.


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