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Rhinconichthys
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Pachycormidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom
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Rhinconichthys is an extinct genus of bony fish which existed during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.
Along with its close cousins the great-white-shark-sized or larger Bonnerichthys and the immense Leedsichthys, Rhinconichthys forms a line of giant filter-feeding bony pachycormid fish that swam the Jurassic and Cretaceous seas for over 100 million years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhinconichthys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.