Kawichthys

Kawichthys
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian, 305–299 Ma
Fossil elements of the holotype and paratype
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Symmoriiformes
Genus: Kawichthys
Pradel et al., 2011
Species:  K. moodiei
Binomial name
Kawichthys moodiei
Pradel et al., 2011

Kawichthys is an extinct genus of symmoriiform cartilaginous fish from Upper Pennsylvanian (Late Virgilian stage) deposits of Kansas, USA. Kawichthys is known from two well preserved three-dimensional neurocrania: the holotype KUVP 152144 is associated with some disturbed and broken postcranial elements, but the braincase is partially crushed, and the paratype KUVP 56340. It was collected from the Douglas Group, between the Haskell Limestone Member and the overlying Robbins Shale of the Stranger Formation. It was first named by Alan Pradel, Paul Tafforeau, John G. Maisey and Philippe Janvier in 2011 and the type species is Kawichthys moodiei.[1]

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