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Gibbodon

Gibbodon is an extinct genus of marine pycnodontid ray-finned fish from the Late Triassic of Europe. It contains a single species, G. cenensis from the Norian-aged Zorzino Limestone of Cene, Italy. It was previously placed in its own family Gibbodontidae, but is now known to belong in the family Brembodontidae.

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Length
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Gibbodon
Temporal range:
Specimen at Museo Caffi di Bergamo
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pycnodontiformes
Family: Brembodontidae
Genus: Gibbodon
Tintori, 1981
Species:
G. cenensis
Binomial name
Gibbodon cenensis
Tintori, 1981

Gibbodon is an extinct genus of marine pycnodontid ray-finned fish from the Late Triassic of Europe.1 It contains a single species, G. cenensis from the Norian-aged Zorzino Limestone of Cene, Italy. It was previously placed in its own family Gibbodontidae2, but is now known to belong in the family Brembodontidae.3

It lived sympatrically with its close relative, Brembodus.

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External links
  • "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Archived from the original on 2024-04-01. Retrieved 2026-02-07.
  • Nursall, Ralph Mesozoic Fishes – Systematics and Paleoecology, G. Arratia & G. Viohl (eds.), Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany, 1996 – ISBN 3-923871-90-2 "The phylogeny of pycnodont fishes"
  • Ebert, Martin (2026-02-03). "Macromesodon Blake, 1905 and Apomesodon Poyato-Ariza & Wenz, 2002 (Actinopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Jurassic and lowermost Cretaceous of England, France, and Germany". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 145: 97–129. doi:10.3897/sjp.145.177263. ISSN 1664-2384.