Leedsichthys

Leedsichthys is an extinct genus of pachycormid fish that lived in the oceans of the Middle to Late Jurassic. It was the largest ray-finned fish, and amongst the largest fish known to have ever existed.

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Vinony's link graph records 115 inbound references to Leedsichthys, and connects out to Pachycormiformes, Teleostei and Actinopterygii.

It is catalogued under topics including Callovian genus first appearances, Fossils of Chile and Fossils of England.

Vinony links it to 25 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Parent taxon: Holostei
Mass: 20
Image: Leedsichtys092.jpg
Length: 16

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start time: 165000000-
end time: 152000000-
taxon name: Leedsichthys
taxon rank: genus
Commons category: Leedsichthys

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Discovery and naming
Fossil range
Description
Size
Phylogeny
Paleobiology
Footnotes
External links

The first remains of Leedsichthys were identified in the nineteenth century. Especially important were the finds by the British collector Alfred Nicholson Leeds, after whom the genus was named "Leeds' fish" in 1889. The type species is Leedsichthys problematicus. Leedsichthys fossils have been found in England, France, Germany and Chile. In 1999, based on the Chilean discoveries, a second species was named Leedsichthys notocetes, but this was later shown to be indistinguishable from L. problematicus.

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