Tanyrhinichthys

Tanyrhinichthys
Temporal range: Kasimovian
~307–303.7 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Genus: Tanyrhinichthys
Gottfried, 1987
Type species
Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri
Gottfried, 1987

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]

  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.