Colobodontidae

Colobodontidae
Temporal range: Possible Olenekian record
Fossil specimen of Colobodus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Order: †Colobodontiformes
Xu et al., 2024
Family: †Colobodontidae
Andersson, 1916
Genera

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Colobodontidae is an extinct family of marine stem-neopterygian fish known from the Triassic of Asia and Europe. It contains at least three genera: Colobodus, Crenilepis and Feroxichthys; the genera Chaohuperleidus and Gabanellia may also belong to the family. The colobodontids typically were medium-sized, somewhat deep-bodied fishes with a durophagous diet. Like most other stem-neopterygian families, it was traditionally placed in the paraphyletic order Perleidiformes, but in 2024 it was moved to the new, monotypic order Colobodontiformes.

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