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).[1][2] The type and only species, B. macrognathus, is known from a single partially complete skull (ca. 80 millimetres (3.1 in) long),[3] which was recovered from the Pedra de Fogo Formation near Pastos Bons, Maranhão, Brazil.[1]