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1553: 1560: 1545: 108: 304:. As the genus name suggests, they are distinguishable from modern gar by their cuneate (wedge-shaped) heads, with a significantly shortened snout. Three species are known: 454:"An Empirical Synthetic Pattern Study of Gars (lepisosteiformes) and Closely Related Species, Based Mostly on Skeletal Anatomy. the Resurrection of Holostei" 1109: 838: 1323: 1088: 888: 861: 964: 808: 1191: 1161: 1005: 1624: 1201: 1181: 1130: 1046: 956: 897: 870: 1225: 1026: 904: 1300: 1232: 949: 828: 526:"Phylogenomics of the Ancient and Species-Depauperate Gars Tracks 150 Million Years of Continental Fragmentation in the Northern Hemisphere" 1019: 942: 1657: 1290: 935: 195: 1672: 559:"Unappreciated Cenozoic ecomorphological diversification of stem gars revealed by a new large species – Acta Palaeontologica Polonica" 1246: 1171: 409:) from the Green River Formation. Both species are common in mass death assemblages from the "Lake Uinta" division of the formation. 584: 1667: 1611: 639: 1692: 1687: 618: 397:
found it to be morphologically highly divergent from any of the extant genera, and thus classified it in its own genus
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Brownstein, Chase Doran; Yang, Liandong; Friedman, Matt; Near, Thomas J. (20 December 2022).
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Dayvault, Richard D. (1995). "Note on Lepisosteus Cuneatus, A Gar from Lake Uinta".
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are known to have coexisted with species belonging to both extant gar genera (
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Cooper, S. L. A.; Gunn, J.; Brito, P. M.; Zouhri, S.; Martill, D. M. (2023).
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is also sometimes placed in this tribe, but other studies have found
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The Green River Formation in Piceance Creek and Eastern Uinta Basins
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They are thought to belong to the Cuneatini, a now-extinct
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that inhabited western North America during the early
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The genus 106: 34: 1668:Paleogene fish of North America 428:species indicates it to be the 371:of the genus was described as " 626: 576: 1: 1693:Fossil taxa described in 2010 510:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105650 435: 1688:Fossils of the United States 7: 325: 32:Late Paleocene–Early Eocene 10: 1709: 1586: 1540: 1435: 1340: 1310: 1272: 1263: 1212: 1153: 1144: 1036: 981: 930: 918: 887: 860: 848: 800: 785: 766: 738: 720: 711: 693: 680: 634: 252: 247: 230: 223: 103:Scientific classification 101: 23: 364:) in known localities. 452:Grande, Lance (2010). 432:species of the genus. 1683:Green River Formation 387:Green River Formation 16:Extinct genus of fish 1678:Ypresian extinctions 1663:Prehistoric holostei 235:Lepisosteus cuneatus 853:Kyphosichthyiformes 501:2023CrRes.15105650C 489:Cretaceous Research 383:Edward Drinker Cope 530:Systematic Biology 418:Willwood Formation 393:. 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Eukaryota
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Actinopterygii
Ginglymodi
Lepisosteiformes
Lepisosteidae
Cuneatini
Cuneatus
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