Sphenocephalus

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Sphenocephalus (from Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang"., 'wedge' and Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang". 'head') is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Cretaceous period. Fossils have been found in England and Italy.

Sphenocephalus was about Script error: No such module "convert". long, with a rather large head, and may have resembled a modern black bass in appearance. It was one of the earliest fish to have the pelvic fins placed beneath th pectoral fins, a common feature in modern fish that improves swimming manoeuvrability. Like the modern trout-perches, it possessed a mixture of modern and primitive features, and it was probably one of the earliest perciform fish.[1]

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