Beckius

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title: Beckius
text: Beckius is an extinct genus of marine whitefish known from the Early Oligocene of California. It contains a single species, B. plicatus, known only from a single fossilized scale from the Tumey Formation, a lens of the Kreyenhagen Shale. The scale was found to resemble those of Coregonus, although significantly different in many ways, leading to its classification as a new genus of Coregoninae. The genus name was later reused in 1992 for a scarab beetle from New Guinea, until it was discovered t
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description: Fossil genus of fishes
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date modified: 2024-04-19T22:20:39Z
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