Gonorynchidae

Gonorynchidae is a family of ray-finned fish in the order Gonorynchiformes, which has a number of fossil taxa and one extant genus, Gonorynchus, the beaked salmons. They are an ancient group, with fossils known from as far back as the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The family name comes from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía), meaning "angle", and ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos), meaning "snout", referring to the angular snout that the type species use to dig themselves into the sand.

John Richardson is the original author of the family.

Taxonomy

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• †Charitopsis Gayet 1993
• †Charitosomus Hosius & Von Der Marck 1885
• †Gonorynchidarum Rana, 1988 [otolith]
• Gonorynchus Scopoli, 1777 - beaked salmons<ref name = CofF/>
• †Hakeliosomus Gayet 1993 (possibly synonymous with Ramallichthys)
• †Judeichthys Gayet 1985 (possibly synonymous with Ramallichthys)
• †Lecceichthys Taverne, 1998
• †Notogoneus Cope 1885 (=†Anormurus Blainville, 1818, †Protocatostomus Whitfield 1891)
• †Sapperichthys Amaral, Alvardo-Ortega & Brito, 2013<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• †Ramallichthys Gayet 1982

An indeterminate gonorynchid (previously classified in Charitosomus) is known from fossil remains from the late Albian or early-mid Cenomanian Kwango Group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<ref name=":0" />

References

• Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-05-17.