| Pachycormiformes Temporal range: Early Jurassic - Late Cretaceous,
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| Skeleton of Pachycormus | |
| Skeleton of Orthocormus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Infraclass: | Teleosteomorpha |
| Order: | †Pachycormiformes Berg 1937 |
| Family: | †Pachycormidae Woodward, 1895 |
| Type genus | |
| Pachycormus Agassiz, 1833
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Pachycormiformes is an extinct order of marine ray-finned fish. They lived in the early Jurassic period to the end of the Cretaceous. It only includes a single family, the Pachycormidae. They were characterized by having serrated pectoral fins (though more recent studies demonstrated that fin shape diversity in this group was high[2]), reduced pelvic fins and a bony rostrum.
Pachycormiformes were probably members of the Teleosteomorpha. This was a group which includes all fish more closely related to modern teleosts than to Holostei. This is a group which includes the bowfin and gars.
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