Gatunek typowy
Carpathichthys polonicus

Opis

Long head with short posterior part of neurocranium; maxilla forms the greater part of upper jaw; mandible shallow; jaws with small, uniform teeth arranged in single rows; opercular bones thin with smooth margins; preoperculum and interoperculum large; operculum long, shallow and triangular; ceratohyal imperforate with narrow midportion; pelvics inserted slightly behind midpoint of body; dorsal and anal fins, posteriorly placed, subequal and opposite; about 41 vertebrae, 20 caudal; majority of head bones, cleithrum and vertebral centra of adult forms with numerous low ridges and furrows; scales absent; pectoral and caudal fin without produced ray. 

Synonimy

Zasięg czasowy

Oligocene, zone IPM 5 of the Menilite Beds.

Literatura

Jerzmańska, A. 1979. Oligocene alepocephaloid fishes from the polish Carpathians. Acta Palaentologica Polonica 24(1): 65 - 76.