Thrissops
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Thrissops (from Template:Langx Template:Transliteration, 'hair' and Template:Langx Template:Transliteration 'look')[1] is an extinct genus of stem-teleost fish from the Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian).[2] Its fossils are known from the Solnhofen Limestone,[3] as well as the Kimmeridge Clay.
Thrissops was a fast predatory fish about Template:Convert long, that fed on other bony fish.[4] It had a streamlined body with a deeply cleft tail and only very small pelvic fins. Thrissops was one of the smaller members of the order Ichthyodectiformes, which also included larger representatives like Xiphactinus and Saurodon.[5]
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- ↑ Solnhofen und seine Fossilien: Thrissops Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Orvar Nybelin, "Versuch einer taxonomischen revision der jurassischen Fischgattung Thrissops Agassiz", Nature (1964)
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