Pachycormiformes
| Pachycormiformes Temporal range: Early Jurassic - Late Cretaceous, | |
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| Skeleton of Pachycormus | |
| Skeleton of Orthocormus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Infraclass: | Teleosteomorpha |
| Division: | †Aspidorhynchei |
| Order: | †Pachycormiformes Berg 1937 |
| Family: | †Pachycormidae Woodward, 1895 |
| Type genus | |
| Pachycormus Agassiz, 1833 | |
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Pachycormiformes is an extinct order of marine ray-finned fish known from the Early Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. It only includes a single family, Pachycormidae. They were characterized by having serrated pectoral fins (though more recent studies demonstrated that fin shape diversity in this group was high), reduced pelvic fins and a bony rostrum. Pachycormiformes are morphologically diverse, containing both tuna and swordfish-like carnivorous forms, as well as edentulous suspension-feeding forms.