Zoqueichthys carolinae Alvarado-Ortega and Than-Marchese 2012 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Teleosteomorpha - Aipichthyoididae

Full reference: J. Alvarado-Ortega and B. A. Than-Marchese. 2012. A Cenomanian aipichthyoid fish (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) from America, Zoqueichthys carolinae gen. and sp. nov. from El Chango quarry (Cintalapa Member, Sierra Madre Formation), Chiapas, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 29(3):735-748

Belongs to Zoqueichthys according to K. M. Cantalice et al. 2021

See also Alvarado-Ortega and Than-Marchese 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IHNFG-2224, a skeleton. Its type locality is El Chango Quarry, which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal dolomite in the Cintalapa Formation of Mexico.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at El Chango Quarry

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