Chuhsiungichthys yanagidai Yabumoto 1994 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes

Full reference: Y. Yabumoto. 1994. Early Cretaceous freshwater fish fauna in Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 13:107-254

Belongs to Chuhsiungichthys according to L. Cavin et al. 2013

See also Yabumoto 1994

Sister taxa: Chuhsiungichthys japonicus, Chuhsiungichthys tsanglingensis

Type specimen: KMNH VP 100,148, a skeleton. Its type locality is First formation (TO-1), which is in a Neocomian terrestrial conglomerate/shale in the First Formation of Japan.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at First formation (TO-1)

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