Blochiidae
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Blochiidae is an extinct family of small-sized billfish known from the Late Paleocene to the Middle Eocene from the northern Tethys Ocean and the Pacific coast of South America.
Two genera are known: Blochius Volta, 1800 (Early Eocene of Italy) Loancorhynchus Otero, 2019 (Middle Eocene of Chile)
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