Pepemkay
Pepemkay is an extinct genus of lissoberycine trachichthyid fish in prehistoric North America.
| Pepemkay | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Trachichthyiformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Subfamily: | Lissoberycinae |
| Genus: | โ Pepemkay Alvarado-Ortega & Than-Marchese, 2013 |
| Type species | |
| โ Pepemkay maya Alvarado-Ortega & Than-Marchese, 2013 | |
The prehistoric ray-finned fish genus contains a single species, Pepemkay maya.[1]
Fossil record
Pepemkay maya is known from fossils in the Sierra Madre Formation, from the Cenomanian stage during the Late Cretaceous epoch.
The geologic formation is located in Chiapas state of southwestern Mexico.
See also
- Cretaceous fish of North America
- Cretaceous Mexico
References
- Alvarado-Ortega, J. S.; Than-Marchese, B. A. S. (2013). "The first record of a North American Cenomanian Trachichthyidae fish (Acanthomorpha, Acanthopterygii),Pepemkay maya, gen. Et sp. Nov., from El Chango Quarry (Sierra Madre Formation), Chiapas, Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33: 48. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.712585.
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