Pepemkay

Pepemkay
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beryciformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Subfamily: Lissoberycinae
Genus: Pepemkay
Alvarado-Ortega & Than-Marchese, 2013
Type species
Pepemkay maya
Alvarado-Ortega & Than-Marchese, 2013

Pepemkay is an extinct genus of lissoberycine trachichthyid fish known from the Late Cretaceous Sierra Madre Formation (Cenomanian stage) of Chiapas State, southern Mexico. It contains a single species, Pepemkay maya.[1]

References

  1. Alvarado-Ortega, J. S.; Than-Marchese, B. A. S. (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: 48. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.712585.
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