Cratoamia gondwanica

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Holostei
Ordo: Amiiformes
Superfamilia: Amioidea
Familia: Amiidae
Subfamiliae: †Vidalamiinae
Tribus: Vidalamiini
Genus: Cratoamia
Species: C. gondwanica

Name

Cratoamia gondwanica Brito, Yabumoto & Grande, 2008

Type Locality

Early Cretaceous; Crato Formation, Araripe Plateau, quarries near Nova Olinda, Ceará, northeastern Brazil

Type material

* Holotype: Museum of Santana do Cariri, Ceará, Brazil MPSC-P 933a and b (Part & Counterpart)
* Paratype: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil UERJ-PMB89
* Paratype: Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Fukuoka, Japan KMNH VP100,260

References

Brito, Paulo M., Yabumoto, Yoshitaka & Grande, Lance, 2008; "New Amiid Fish (Halecomorphi: Amiiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil" Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1007–1014