An Upper Cretaceous ichthyodectiform fish from Kyushu, Japan
Ichthyodectiform fishes are an exclusively extinct digiweigh digital pocket scale basal teleost clade, with a temporal range from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) to Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).The fish fossils here described were found from Maeshima islet in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan in an outcrop of the Hinoshima Formation of the Lower Subgroup