Cretophareodus

Cretophareodus is an extinct genus of bonytongue from the Campanian of the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta. It is known from a nearly complete skeleton lacking only the tail, named in 1996 by Li Guo-qing with the type species C. alberticus. It was moderately-sized, being around 30 cm (12 in) long, and is closely related to the Eocene genera Phareodus and Brychaetus. Additional isolated bones from the Dinosaur Park Formation are also referrable to Crewtophareodus.^[1][2]

Cretophareodus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Late Campanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
C. alberticus fossil from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Royal Ontario Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Osteoglossiformes
Family:	Osteoglossidae
Subfamily:	Osteoglossinae
Genus:	†Cretophareodus Li, 1996[1]
Type species
Cretophareodus alberticus Li, 1996

It is the oldest known crown group osteoglossoid, a group represented today by arowanas and arapaimas.^[3]