Pepemkay

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Pepemkay
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Trachichthyiformes
Family: Trachichthyidae
Genus: Pepemkay
Alvarado-Ortega & Than-Marchese, 2013
Species:
P. maya
Binomial name
Pepemkay maya
Alvarado-Ortega & Than-Marchese, 2013

Pepemkay is an extinct genus of lissoberycine trachichthyid fish in prehistoric North America.

Contents

The prehistoric ray-finned fish genus contains a single species, Pepemkay maya. [1]

Fossil record

Pepemkay maya is known from fossils in the Sierra Madre Formation, from the Cenomanian stage during the Late Cretaceous epoch.

The geologic formation is located in Chiapas state of southwestern Mexico.

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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: 48–57. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.712585. S2CID   129572908.