Article: The first articulated freshwater teleost fish from the Cretaceous of North America
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
29
Part:
2
Publication Date:
June
1986
Page(s):
365
–
371
Author(s):
Lance Grande
Abstract
Chandlerichthys strickeri n. gen. et sp., represented by two articulated specimens, is described from Middle Cretaceous deposits of the north slope of Alaska. This is the first articulated teleost species positively of Cretaceous age that has been found in freshwater deposits of North America. Although preservation is insufficient to permit detailed morphological description of the skull and caudal skeleton, it appears to be an osteoglossomorph.