Extinct family of fishes
Coccodontidae is a family of extinct pycnodontid fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian. The various genera had massive, curved spines.
The family is composed of five genera, the type genus, "Coccodus", "Paracoccodus" which was split off from "Coccodus", the newly described "Corusichthys", the sexually dimorphic "Hensodon", and "Trewavasia". "Ichthyoceros" was, at one time, placed in Coccodontidae, but then was moved with "Trewavasia" in "Trewavasiidae," and then, in 2014, was placed in the related pycnodontid family Gladiopycnodontidae, while "Trewavasia" was returned to Coccodontidae.
Coccodontidae, together with Gladiopycnodontidae and the superficially shrimpfish-like Gebrayelichthyidae, make up the pycnodontid superfamily Coccodontoidea.
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