Cyttoides

Cyttoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Oligocene epoch in the western Paratethys Sea over Europe. It contains a single species, C. glaronensis from the Matt Formation of Canton Glarus, Switzerland. It was a zeiform related to the extant genus Cyttus.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Cyttoides Temporal range: Early Oligocene[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Zeiformes
Family:	Cyttidae
Genus:	†Cyttoides Wettstein, 1886
Species:	†C. glaronensis
Binomial name
†Cyttoides glaronensis Wettstein, 1886

The modern king dory (Cyttus traversi) was briefly classified into the genus Cyttoides, but was reclassified back when that genus was found to be preoccupied by C. glaronensis.^[6]

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish