Eodiaphyodus

Taxobox
name = Elopiformes
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Elopiformes
genus = "Eodiaphyodus"

"Eodiaphyodus" is a genus of Elopiformes fish that is classified in the suborder Albuloidea. It is related to the modern Tarpon. This fish that in Morocco during the Late Cretaceous Period. It crushed its food with bony plates found in the back of its throat.

Classification

pecies

*"Eodiaphyodus granulosus"

ee also

*"Coriops"
*Flora and fauna of the Maastrichtian stage
*List of prehistoric bony fish (Osteichthyes)