1 American Paddle Fish
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Date: 2021-05-29

American paddlefish are closely related to sturgeons in the order Acipenseriformes, an order of basal ray-finned fishes that includes sturgeon and paddlefish, several species of which are now extinct.Paddlefish have a long fossil record which dates their first appearance approximately 125 million years ago. Fossils of a second extinct species, P. tuberculata, which dates back approximately 60 million years ago, were found in the Lower Paleocene Tullock Formation in Montana.