Berycopsia is an extinct genus of beardfish that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous. It contains a single species, B. inopinnata, that inhabited marine habitats of the Tethys Sea around what is now Croatia.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Polymixiiformes |
| Family: | Polymixiidae |
| Genus: | †Berycopsia Radovčić, 1975 |
| Species: | †B. inopinnata
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| †Berycopsia inopinnata Radovčić, 1975
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See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ "Polymixiidae". mayatan.web.fc2.com. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ^ Murray, Alison M.; Cumbaa, Stephen L. (2013). "Early Turonian acanthomorphs from Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (2): 293–300. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.722574. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ^ Schrøder, Ane Elise; Rasmussen, Jan Audun; Møller, Peter Rask; Carnevale, Giorgio (2022-08-31). "A new beardfish (Teleostei, Polymixiiformes) from the Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42 (2). doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2142914. hdl:10037/28645. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ^ De Cia Caixeta, Heloísa; Oliveira, Claudio; Melo, Marcelo Roberto Souto de (2024-03-01). "Another piece of the living fossil puzzle: A new species of Polymixia Lowe, 1836 (Polymixiiformes: Polymixiidae) from the western South Atlantic". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 205: 104249. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104249. ISSN 0967-0637.
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