Colobodus

Colobodus is an extinct genus of Triassic bony fish of the family Colobodontidae and order Perleidiformes. Fossils have been found in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland) and China. It could reach body lengths of about 70 cm (2 ft 4 in).

Colobodus
Temporal range:
Colobodus bassanii fossil at Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
†Perleidiformes
Family:
†Colobodontidae
Genus:
†Colobodus

Agassiz, 1844
Type species
†Colobodus bassanii
de Alessandri, 1910
Other species
  • †C. maximus (Quenstedt, 1867)
  • †C. praemaximus Corroy, 1928
  • †C. koenigi Stolley, 1920
  • †C. baii Sun et al., 2008
  • †C. giganteus (Beltan, 1972)
  • †C. wushaensis Li et al., 2019

The original type species was Colobodus hogardi Agassiz, 1844, the fossils of which are probably destroyed, therefore the new type species C. bassanii was designated.

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