Amakusaichthys

Amakusaichthys
Temporal range: Santonian
83.6 Ma
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Reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Ichthyodectiformes
Family: †Bardackichthyidae
Genus: †Amakusaichthys
Yabumoto et al. 2018
Species:
†A. goshouraensis
Binomial name
†Amakusaichthys goshouraensis
Yabumoto et al. 2018

Amakusaichthys is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform fish which lived during the Late Cretaceous, known from only one species A. goshouraensis. Fossils are known from Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.[1]

  1. ^ Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Hirose, Koji; Brito, Paulo M. (2020-03-15). "A new ichthyodectiform fish, Amakusaichthys goshouraensis gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Himenoura Group in Goshoura, Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan". Historical Biology. 32 (3): 362–375. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1497022. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 91632554.