Chibapsetta Temporal range:
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Carangiformes |
Suborder: | Pleuronectoidei |
Family: | Pleuronectidae |
Genus: | †Chibapsetta Sakamoto & Uyeno, 1988 |
Species: | †C. dolichurostyli
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†Chibapsetta dolichurostyli Sakamoto & Uyeno, 1988
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Chibapsetta is an extinct genus of prehistoric right-eye flounder that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. It contains a single species, C. dolichurostyli from what is now Tōgane, Japan.[1][2][3][4] Some authors instead place its stratigraphic range as Late Pliocene.[5]
Although its exact subfamilial placement is uncertain, it may be related to Hippoglossoides.[2]