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Beardfish

Index Beardfish

The beardfishes consist of a single extant genus, Polymixia, of deep-sea marine ray-finned fish named for their pair of long hyoid barbels. [1]

36 relations: Actinopterygii, Aipichthyoides, Aipichthys, Animal, Atlantic Ocean, Barbel (anatomy), Beryciformes, Berycopsia, Berycopsis, Chordate, Cretaceous, Dalmatichthys, Early Cretaceous, Eocene, Fishes of the World, Genus, Holocene, Homonotichthys, Hyoid bone, Indian Ocean, Late Cretaceous, Mikko's Phylogeny Archive, Miocene, Neogene, Oligocene, Omosoma, Omosomopsis, Pacific Ocean, Paleocene, Paleogene, Paraipichthys, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Polymixia, Pycnosterinx, Quaternary.

Actinopterygii

Actinopterygii, or the ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes.

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Aipichthyoides

Aipichthyoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian.

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Aipichthys

Aipichthys is an extinct genus of bony fish.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Barbel (anatomy)

In fish anatomy and turtle anatomy, a barbel is a slender, whiskerlike sensory organ near the mouth.

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Beryciformes

The Beryciformes are a poorly-understood order of carnivorous ray-finned fishes consisting of 7 families, 30 genera, and 161 species.

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Berycopsia

Berycopsia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the Turonian.

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Berycopsis

Berycopsis is an extinct genus of beardfish from the Cretaceous period.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Dalmatichthys

Dalmatichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Eocene

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.

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Fishes of the World

Fishes of the World by Joseph S. Nelson is a standard reference for fish systematics.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Homonotichthys

Homonotichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Cenomanian.

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Hyoid bone

The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.

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Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Mikko's Phylogeny Archive is an amateur paleontology website maintained by Mikko Haaramo, a student at the University of Helsinki's Department of Geology, Division of Geology and Palaeontology.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Neogene

The Neogene (informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period Mya.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Omosoma

Omosoma is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.

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Omosomopsis

Omosomopsis is a genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.

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Paraipichthys

Paraipichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Polymixia

Polymixia is the only extant genus of the order Polymixiiformes and the only genus in Polymixiidae.

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Pycnosterinx

Pycnosterinx is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Santonian.

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Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Polymixiid, Polymixiidae, Polymixiiformes, Polymixiomorpha, Polymyxiomorpha.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beardfish

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