Extinct genus of bony fish: Bananogmius

Extinct genus of bony fish: Bananogmius

Bananogmius

Bananogmius is an extinct genus of bony fish that lived in what is today Kansas during the Late Cretaceous. It lived in the Western Interior Seaway, which split North America in two during the Late Cretaceous. Bananogmius was equipped with flat jaws and palatine plates that helped it crush its favorite prey, clams and mollusks.