Araripichthys Silva Santos

MAISEY, JOHN G. & MOODY, JOHN M., 2001, A Review of the Problematic Extinct Teleost Fish Araripichthys, with a Description of a New Species from the Lower Cretaceous of Venezuela, American Museum Novitates 3324, pp. 1-27 : 3-4

Genus Araripichthys Silva Santos

Araripichthys Silva Santos, 1983: 27 (nomen nudum).

Araripichthys Silva Santos, 1985a: 135 . Araripichthys Silva Santos ; Maisey and Blum,

1991: 208.

TYPE SPECIES: Araripichthys castilhoi Silva Santos.

DIAGNOSIS: As for family.

Araripichthys castilhoi Silva Santos

Araripichthys castilhoi Silva Santos, 1983: 27 (nomen nudum).

Araripichthys castilhoi Silva Santos, 1985a: 135 .

DIAGNOSIS (emended): Araripichthys with elongate premaxillary ascending process accounting for almost half of premaxillary length; strongly developed articular condyle on rodlike anterior part of maxilla, with deep corresponding cotylus on vomer; supramaxillae expanded vertically and of approximately equal size; parietal posterior margin deeply embayed; epioccipital forms distinct posterior process behind parietal.

HOLOTYPE: No. 21­ P 3, Departamento de Biologia Animal e Vegetal , Instituto de Biologia , State University of Rio de Janeiro ( UERJ), Brazil. Almost complete individual; mid­Cretaceous (Albian), Santana Formation , Chapada do Araripe, NE Brazil. Figured in Silva Santos, 1985a: pl. II: 2, 2a, 3.