| Tanyrhinichthys Temporal range: Kasimovian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Genus: | †Tanyrhinichthys Gottfried, 1987 |
| Type species | |
| †Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri Gottfried, 1987
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Tanyrhinichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish with a lengthened rostrum that lived during the Kasimovian (Missourian) age (Upper Pennsylvanian, Upper Carboniferous) in what is now New Mexico, United States.[1] Fossils were recovered from Tinajas Member of the Atrasado Formation (Kinney Brick Quarry).[1]
- ^ a b Stack, Jack; Hodnett, John-Paul; Lucas, Spencer G.; Sallan, Lauren (2021). "Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri, a long-rostrumed Pennsylvanian ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) and the simultaneous appearance of novel ecomorphologies in Late Palaeozoic fishes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 191 (2): 347–374. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa044.