Paleocharacodon, Caballero-Viñas & Alvarado-Ortega & Severiano, 2023

Caballero-Viñas, Carmen, Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús & Severiano, Kleyton Magno Cantalice, 2023, A Pliocene goodeid fish of the Paleolake Amajac, Sanctórum, Hidalgo, Mexico, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 30) 26 (2), pp. 1-39 : 5

Genus Paleocharacodon gen. nov.

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Species included. Paleocharacodon guzmanae sp. nov., described below.

Etymology. The genus name derives from “paleo” or “ancient” in Greek, plus “ Characodon ” in reference to the genus named by Günther (1886).

Diagnosis. As in the type and unique species of the genus, see below.