Named By: | Matt Friedman, Kenshu Shimada, Larry D. Martin, Michael J. Everhart, Jeff Liston, Anthony Maltese & Michael Triebold in 2010 |
Time Period: | Cretaceous |
Location: | England. Japan - Mikasa Formation. USA, Colorado - Carlile Shale |
Size: | R. purgatoirensis about 2 - 2.7 meters long. R. uyenoi. about 3.4-4.5 meters long |
Diet: | Filter feeder |
Fossil(s): | Partial remains of several individuals |
Classification: | | Chordata | Actinopterygii | Pachycormiformes | Pachycormidae | |
Rhinconichthys is an extinct genus of bony fish which existed during the upper Cretaceous period.
Along with its close cousins the great-white-shark-sized or larger Bonnerichthys and the immense Leedsichthys, Rhinconichthys forms a line of giant filter-feeding bony pachycormid fish that swam the Jurassic and Cretaceous seas for over 100 million years.