''Bullichthys'' is an extinct genus of
albuliform fish which existed in the
Romualdo Formation
The Romualdo Formation is a geologic Konservat-Lagerstätte in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together. The geological formation, previously designated as the Romualdo Member of the Sa ...
,
Brazil
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during the
Early Cretaceous (
Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/ Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0 ...
) period.
[Diogo Mayrinck, Paulo M. Brito, Olga Otero (2010)]
"A new albuliform (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil".
Cretaceous Research 31 (2): 227-236. . The type species is ''B. santanensis''.
References
Albuliformes
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Cretaceous bony fish
Early Cretaceous fish
Albian life
Prehistoric fish of South America
Early Cretaceous animals of South America
Cretaceous Brazil
Fossils of Brazil
Romualdo Formation
Fossil taxa described in 2010
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