| Brazilichthys Temporal range: Cisuralian
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Brazilichthyidae Cox & Hutchinson, 1991 |
| Genus: | †Brazilichthys Cox & Hutchinson, 1991 |
| Species: | †B. macrognathus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Brazilichthys macrognathus Cox & Hutchinson, 1991
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Brazilichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Cisuralian (early Permian) epoch in what is now Maranhão, Brazil (Parnaíba Basin). The type and only species, B. macrognathus, is known from a single partially complete skull (ca. 80 millimetres (3.1 in) long), which was recovered from the Pedra de Fogo Formation near Pastos Bons, Maranhão, Brazil.
Classification
Brazilichthys is referred to its own family, Brazilichthyidae (monotypy). Its evolutionary relationships to other genera are not well known. It was hypothesized that Brazilichthys could be closely related to the Triassic Birgeria, though this was subsequently considered unlikely.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Figueroa, Rodrigo T.; Friedman, Matt; Gallo, Valéria (2019). "Cranial anatomy of the predatory actinopterygian Brazilichthys macrognathus from the Permian (Cisuralian) Pedra de Fogo Formation, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (3): e1639722. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E9722F. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1639722. S2CID 92614261.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ^ a b Cox, C. Barry; Hutchinson, Peter (1991). "Fishes and amphibians from the late Permian Pedra De Fogo Formation of northern Brazil" (PDF). Palaeontology. 34 (3): 561–573.
- ^ Romano, Carlo; Brinkmann, Winand (2009). "Reappraisal of the lower actinopterygian Birgeria stensioei ALDINGER, 1931 (Osteichthyes; Birgeriidae) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) and Besano (Italy)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 252 (1): 17–31. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0252-0017.
