Pachycormus (fish)

Pachycormus
Temporal range: Toarcian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pachycormiformes
Family: Pachycormidae
Genus: Pachycormus
Agassiz, 1833
Type species
Pachycormus macropterus (originally Elops macropterus)
(de Blainville 1818)

Pachycormus (from Greek: παχύς pakhús, 'thick' and Greek: κορμός kormós 'trunk')[1] is an extinct genus of pachycormiform ray-finned fish known from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian stage) of Europe.

  1. ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 129. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

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