Araripichthys, MAISEY & MOODY, 2001

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 : 4

Araripichthys corythophorus Cavin, 1997a

Araripichthys new species, Cavin, 1997a: 34. Araripichthys corythophorus Cavin, 1997b: 720 .

DIAGNOSIS: Araripichthys with ascending process of premaxilla slightly less than half premaxillary length (?); vomer with well­developed articular condyle for maxilla; at least one large supramaxilla present; small epioccipital and relatively straight parietal and pterotic posterior margins.

HOLOTYPE: Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Boulogne­sur­Mer , BHN 2 P 35; Upper Cretaceous ( Lower Turonian ), Goulmima , Morocco. Incomplete individual lacking tail, preserved length approx. 21 cm. Figured in Cavin, 1997a: figs. 1.9–1.11; Cavin, 1997b: fig. 2.