Quetzalichthys Alvarado-Ortega and Espinosa-Arrubarrena 2008 (bowfin)

Osteichthyes - Amiiformes - Ionoscopidae

Full reference: J. Alvarado-Ortega and L. Espinosa-Arrubarrena. 2008. A New Genus of Ionoscopiform Fish (Halecomorphi) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Lithographic Limestones of the Tlayúa Quarry, Puebla, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 82(1):163-175

Parent taxon: Ionoscopidae according to J. Alvarado-Ortega and L. Espinosa-Arrubarrena 2008

See also Cantalice et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Ionoscopus, Oshunia, Spathiurus

Subtaxa: Quetzalichthys perrilliatae

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Type: Quetzalichthys perrilliatae

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-piscivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Mexico (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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