Beerichthys

Beerichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, Beerichthys ingens, that was a member of the Ypresian London Clay fauna of lower Eocene England.[1]

It is known only from a series of incomplete skulls. When originally described in 1966, B. ingens was placed in a monotypic family, "Beerichthyidae," within Iniomi. Later, more (also incomplete) skulls were studied by Colin Patterson, who determined that the fish was a louvar, an assessment supported with further CT scanning of its fossils.[2][3]

## See also

* Prehistoric fish
* List of prehistoric bony fish

## References

1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `sepkoskidb`
2. ↑ [1] Phylogenetic Revision of the Fish Families Luvaridae and †Kushlukiidae (Acanthuroidei), with a New Genus and Two New Species of Eocene Luvarids
3. ↑ Friedman, Matt; Beckett, Hermione T.; Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina (2015). "The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten" (in en). Geological Society, London, Special Publications 430 (1): 165–200. doi:10.1144/SP430.18. ISSN 0305-8719. Bibcode: 2016GSLSP.430..165F. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP430.18.

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