Pepemkay is an extinct genus of lissoberycine trachichthyid fish in prehistoric North America.
| Pepemkay Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Trachichthyiformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Genus: | †Pepemkay Alvarado-Ortega & Than-Marchese, 2013 |
| Species: | †P. maya
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| †Pepemkay maya Alvarado-Ortega & Than-Marchese, 2013
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The prehistoric ray-finned fish genus contains a single species, Pepemkay maya.[1]
Fossil record
editPepemkay maya is known from fossils in the Sierra Madre Formation, from the Cenomanian stage during the Late Cretaceous epoch.
The geologic formation is located in Chiapas state of southwestern Mexico.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Alvarado-Ortega, J. S.; Than-Marchese, B. A. S. (2013). "The first record of a North American Cenomanian Trachichthyidae fish (Acanthomorpha, Acanthopterygii),Pepemkay maya, gen. Et sp. Nov., from El Chango Quarry (Sierra Madre Formation), Chiapas, Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33: 48–57. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.712585. S2CID 129572908.
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