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      Image Taxonomy Stratigraphy Time Scale Location Statistics
      Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
      Order: Pycnodontiformes Berg, 1937 sensu Nursall, 2010
      Family: Mesturidae Nursall 1996
      Genus: Mesturus
      Species: Mesturus verrucosus
      Weissjura Group
      Painten Formation
      International Age: Tithonian
      Painten
      Bavaria (state)
      Catalog #: TFF-oilshale-Ch2220
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      Beaked sandfish

      Class: Actinopteri Cope 1871
      Order: Gonorynchiformes
      Family: Gonorhynchidae Gunther 1868
      Genus: Notogoneus
      Species: Notogoneus osculus
      Green River Formation
      International Age: Ypresian
      Kemmerer
      Wyoming
      Catalog #: TFF-oilshale-Ch2245
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