Beerichthys

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|54|50|Lower Eocene<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref>}} | image = Beerichthys ingens.jpg | image_caption = Artist's reconstruction | genus = Beerichthys | parent_authority = Casier, 1966 | species = ingens | authority = Casier, 1966 }}

'''''Beerichthys''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, '''''Beerichthys ingens''''', that was a member of the Ypresian London Clay fauna of lower Eocene England.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/>

It is known only from a series of incomplete skulls. When originally described in 1966, ''B. ingens'' was placed in a monotypic family, "Beerichthyidae," within Iniomi. Later, more (also incomplete) skulls were studied by Colin Patterson, who determined that the fish was a louvar, an assessment supported with further CT scanning of its fossils.<ref>[http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Paleobiology/pdf_lo/SCtP-0081.pdf] Phylogenetic Revision of the Fish Families Luvaridae and †Kushlukiidae (Acanthuroidei), with a New Genus and Two New Species of Eocene Luvarids</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Friedman |first1=Matt |last2=Beckett |first2=Hermione T. |last3=Close |first3=Roger A. |last4=Johanson |first4=Zerina |date=2015 |title=The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten |url=https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP430.18 |journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications |language=en |volume=430 |issue=1 |pages=165–200 |doi=10.1144/SP430.18 |bibcode=2016GSLSP.430..165F |issn=0305-8719|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Luvaridae Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera Category:Eocene fish of Europe Category:Ypresian genera Category:Fossils of England Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Fossil taxa described in 1966