// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Atacamichthys say? I'm a reel good fish.
(Redirected from Atacamichthyidae)
| Atacamichthys Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei (?) |
| Family: | †Atacamichthyidae Arratia et al., 2021 |
| Genus: | †Atacamichthys Arratia & Schultze, 1987 |
| Species: | †A. greeni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Atacamichthys greeni Arratia & Schultze, 1987 | |
Atacamichthys is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish. It contains one species, Atacamichthys greeni, which lived in what is now Chile during the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. Atacamichthys is the only member of the family Atacamichthyidae.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ↑ Arratia, G.; Schultze, H.-P.; Gouiric-Cavalli, S.; Quezada-Romegialli, C. (2021). "The intriguing † Atacamichthys fish from the Middle Jurassic of Chile – an amiiform or a teleosteomorph?". In Pradel, A.; Denton, J. S. S.; Janvier, P. (eds.). Ancient Fishes and their Living Relatives: a Tribute to John G. Maisey. Munich, Germany: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. pp. 19–36. ISBN 978-3-89937-269-4.
 | This article about a prehistoric ray-finned fish is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
 | This article related to a Jurassic fish is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
Categories:
- Prehistoric teleostei
- Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
- Oxfordian genera
- Late Jurassic bony fish
- Jurassic fish of South America
- Jurassic Chile
- Fossils of Chile
- Fossil taxa described in 1987
- Taxa named by Gloria Arratia
- Taxa named by Hans-Peter Schultze
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish stubs
- Jurassic fish stubs