''Asthenocormus'' is an extinct genus of large marine
pachycormiform ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, ''A. titanius''.
A member of the
edentulous
Toothlessness or edentulism is the condition of having no teeth. In organisms that naturally have teeth, it is the result of tooth loss.
Organisms that never possessed teeth can also be described as edentulous. Examples are the members of the fo ...
suspension feeding
Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specia ...
clade within the Pachycormiformes, fossils have been found in the Upper Jurassic
plattenkalks of Bavaria, Germany.''
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Prehistoric fish
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Prehistoric fish are early fish that are known only from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the first and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary. The study of prehistoric fish is ...
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List of prehistoric bony fish
This list of prehistoric bony fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be bony fish (class Osteichthyes), excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includ ...
References
Late Jurassic fish
Late Jurassic fish of Europe
Pachycormiformes
Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Solnhofen fauna
Tithonian genera
Taxa named by Arthur Smith Woodward
Fossil taxa described in 1895
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