Cooyoo Lees and Bartholomai 1987 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes

Full reference: T. Lees and A. Bartholomai. 1987. Study of a Lower Cretaceous actinopterygian (class Pisces) Cooyoo australis from Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25(1):177-192

Parent taxon: Ichthyodectiformes according to L. Cavin et al. 2013

See also Lees and Bartholomai 1987

Sister taxa: Aidachar, Allothrissopidae, Allothrissops, Antarctithrissops, Ascalabothrissops, Cavenderichthys, Chuhsiungichthiidae, Chuhsiungichthys, Cladocyclidae, Garganoichthys, Ichthyodectoidei, Mesoclupea, Occithrissops, Ogunichthys, Pachythrissops, Proportheus, Sultanuvaisia, Thrissops, Unamichthys, Vallecillichthys

Subtaxa: Cooyoo australis

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Type: Portheus australis

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cooyoo in the database

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