Berycopsia is an extinct genus of beardfish that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous. It contains a single species, B. inopinnata, that inhabited marine habitats of the Tethys Sea around what is now Croatia.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Berycopsia
Temporal range: Turonian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Polymixiiformes
Family: Polymixiidae
Genus: Berycopsia
Radovčić, 1975
Species:
B. inopinnata
Binomial name
Berycopsia inopinnata
Radovčić, 1975

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  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
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  5. ^ Schrøder, Ane Elise; Rasmussen, Jan Audun; Møller, Peter Rask; Carnevale, Giorgio (2022-08-31). "A new beardfish (Teleostei, Polymixiiformes) from the Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42 (2). doi:10.1080/02724634.2022.2142914. hdl:10037/28645. ISSN 0272-4634.
  6. ^ De Cia Caixeta, Heloísa; Oliveira, Claudio; Melo, Marcelo Roberto Souto de (2024-03-01). "Another piece of the living fossil puzzle: A new species of Polymixia Lowe, 1836 (Polymixiiformes: Polymixiidae) from the western South Atlantic". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 205: 104249. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104249. ISSN 0967-0637.