Pyritocephalus FRITSCH , 1894

Štamberg, Stanislav, 2013, Knowledge Of The Carboniferous And Permian Actinopterygian Fishes Of The Bohemian Massif - 100 Years After Antonín Frič, Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 69 (3 - 4), pp. 159-182 : 176

Genus Pyritocephalus FRITSCH, 1894

T y p e s p e c i e s: Pyritocephalus sculptus ( FRIČ, 1875) .

D i a g n o s i s ( Huber 1992, emended): Small actinopterygian fishes, rarely exceeding 70 mm; head short and broad, with rostrum, postrostrum, and premaxillaries present; maxillary posteriorly expanded; skull roof deeply fenestrated; paired frontals and parietals variably fused to form a single ossification; dermopterotics lost, replaced by lapped extension of parietals; parietal deeply embayed for reception of posttemporals; skull roof ornamented with linear to semi-concentric grooves and terrace rugae; opercular series reduced; antopercular present; quadratojugal present; branchiostegal rays reduced, with median and paired lateral and posterior gulars present; dorsal fin posterior to anal fin; caudal completely heterocercal; fin rays completely segmented and reduced in number; squamation mostly smooth, with variable parallel-ridge ornamentation in anterolateral trunk region; vertical scale rows number 25–32 along main lateral line.

I n c l u d e d s p e c i e s: Pyritocephalus lineatus (NEWBERRY, 1856) ; P. gracilis (NEWBERRY et WORTHEN, 1870) ; P. comptus WESTOLL, 1944 ; P. rudis WESTOLL, 1944 ; P. lowneyae HUBER, 1992 .

Only the type species P. sculptus is known from the Bohemian Massif.