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Coriops

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superclass
  
Osteichthyes

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Belonostomus, Albanerpeton, Cimolopteryx, Habrosaurus, Brannerion

Coriops is a genus of prehistoric bony fish. Its fossils are found in Campanian (Mesa Verde Formation), Maastrichtian (Hell Creek Formation), and possibly Paleocene (also Hell Creek) age deposits. This chronological distribution means that the genus may have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that killed the dinosaurs.

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Classification

Sepkoski's compendium of marine fossil genera has it classified as an eel, but it has been classified in the Elopiformes and the Osteoglossomorpha.

Species

  • Coriops amnicolus
  • References

    Coriops Wikipedia