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Gyracanthides

Gyracanthides

Woodward, 1906

GBIF:165523508

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PROFILE

Species Profile

Characteristics

Extant Pragian to Visean

ABOUT

Descriptions(2)

Gyracanthides is an extinct genus of acanthodian fish, known from Devonian to Early Carboniferous.
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Gyracanthides is large acanthodian, G. murrayi reached the length up to . The pectoral fin spines are large compared to its body, for specimen that have estimated to be had pectoral fin spines around long.
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CLASSIFICATION

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TYPES

Type Specimens(1)

Gyracanthides murrayi Woodward, 1906

MULTIMEDIA

Media Files(1)

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Source Information

English Wikipedia - Species Pages

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Species pages extracted from the English Wikipedia article XML dump from 2022-08-02. Multimedia, vernacular names and textual descriptions are extracted, but only pages with a taxobox or speciesbox template are recognized. See https://github.com/mdoering/wikipedia-dwca for details.

Döring M (2022). English Wikipedia - Species Pages. Wikimedia Foundation. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/c3kkgh accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-18.

LicensePublished 8/2/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
165523508
Dataset Key
cbb6498e-8927-405a-916b-576d00a6289b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
11136278
Taxon ID
50238256
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026