Osteichthyes - Halecomorphi - 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
Belongs to Quetzalichthys according to J. Alvarado-Ortega and L. Espinosa-Arrubarrena 2008
See also Cantalice et al. 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IGM 8592, a skeleton. Its type locality is Site IGM-2432, Tlayúa Quarry, which is in an Albian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Tlayúa Formation of Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mexico (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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