Jianghanichthys hubeiensis (Lei, 1977)
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Cobitoidea
Castotomidae
Eocene
Songzi Fm
Hubei, China
Length:10 cm
Formerly described as a species of the extant genus Osteochilus, Jianghanichthys hubeiensis is a quite common fish often found in fossil collections. This freshwater fish was related to the modern suckers. In 2008, it was also referred to the genus Amyzon from North America under the new combination Amyzon hunanensis (Cheng, 1962) as the fossils from the Hunan province were find to be identical to those of the Hubei province.
January 25, 2015
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