New Age of Fishes initiated by the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

Ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) comprise nearly half of allmodern vertebrate diversity, and are an ecologically and numerically dominant megafauna in most aquatic environments. Crown teleost fishes diversified relatively recently, during the Late Cretaceous and early Paleogene, although the exact...

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