Eodiaphyodus
| Elopiformes Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Eodiaphyodus is a genus of Elopiformes fish that is classified in the suborder . It is related to the modern Tarpon. This fish lived in what is now Morocco during the Late Cretaceous Period. It crushed its food with bony plates found in the back of its throat.
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Species[]
- Eodiaphyodus granulosus
See also[]
- Coriops
- Flora and fauna of the Maastrichtian stage
- List of prehistoric bony fish (Osteichthyes)
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- Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
- Cretaceous bony fish
- Elopiformes
- Fossils of Morocco
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