Osteichthyes - Acanthopterygii

Full reference: J. Alvarado-Ortega and B. A. Than-Marchese. 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(1):48-57

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

See also Alvarado-Ortega and Than-Marchese 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IHNFG-4645, 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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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.