AN UPPER CRETACEOUS ICHTHYODECTIFORM FISH FROM KYUSHU, JAPAN

An Upper Cretaceous ichthyodectiform fish from Kyushu, Japan

Ichthyodectiform fishes are an exclusively extinct basal teleost clade, with a temporal range from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) to Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).The fish fossils here described were found from Maeshima dabcaps islet in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan in an outcrop of the Hinoshima Formation of the Lower Subgroup of the Himenoura Group

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