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Araripichthys Silva Santos

Description

Genus Araripichthys Silva Santos

Araripichthys Silva Santos, 1983: 27 (nomen nudum).

Araripichthys Silva Santos, 1985a: 135. Araripichthys Silva Santos; Maisey and Blum,

1991: 208.

TYPE SPECIES: Araripichthys castilhoi Silva Santos.

DIAGNOSIS: As for family.

Araripichthys castilhoi Silva Santos

Araripichthys castilhoi Silva Santos, 1983: 27 (nomen nudum).

Araripichthys castilhoi Silva Santos, 1985a: 135.

DIAGNOSIS (emended): Araripichthys with elongate premaxillary ascending process accounting for almost half of premaxillary length; strongly developed articular condyle on rodlike anterior part of maxilla, with deep corresponding cotylus on vomer; supramaxillae expanded vertically and of approximately equal size; parietal posterior margin deeply embayed; epioccipital forms distinct posterior process behind parietal.

HOLOTYPE: No. 21­ P 3, Departamento de Biologia Animal e Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil. Almost complete individual; mid­Cretaceous (Albian), Santana Formation, Chapada do Araripe, NE Brazil. Figured in Silva Santos, 1985a: pl. II: 2, 2a, 3.

Notes

Published as part of MAISEY, JOHN G. & MOODY, JOHN M., 2001, A Review of the Problematic Extinct Teleost Fish Araripichthys, with a Description of a New Species from the Lower Cretaceous of Venezuela, pp. 1-27 in American Museum Novitates 3324 on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2001)324<0001:arotpe>2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/13271415

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Biodiversity

Collection code
UERJ
Scientific name authorship
Silva Santos
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Family
Araripichthyidae
Genus
Araripichthys
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype