Tlayuamichin López-Arbarello and Alvarado-Ortega 2011 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Callipurbeckiidae

Full reference: A. López-Arbarello and J. Alvarado-Ortega. 2011. New semionotiform (Neopterygii) from the Tlayúa Quarry (Early Cretaceous, Albian), Mexico. Zootaxa 2749:1-24

Parent taxon: Callipurbeckiidae according to A. López-Arbarello 2012

See also Cantalice et al. 2019 and López-Arbarello and Alvarado-Ortega 2011

Sister taxa: Callipurbeckia, Macrosemimimus, Occitanichthys, Paralepidotus, Semiolepis

Subtaxa: Tlayuamichin itztli

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Type: Tlayuamichin itztli

Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Tlayúa Quarry (IGM collection) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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