Cyttoides

Cyttoides is an extinct, dubious 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, originally thought to be related to the extant genus Cyttus.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} However, more recent studies indicate that it is a fossil of the extant genus Zenopsis.^[6]

Cyttoides Temporal range: Early Oligocene[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
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.^[7]

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish