Jefitchia

Jefitchia is an extinct genus of prehistoric drumfish that lived from the Eocene to the Oligocene. Fossils have been found in Texas, Louisiana, and Portugal.

It contains three species:

• †Jefitchia claybornensis Koken, 1888
• †Jefitchia copelandi Frizzell & Dante, 1965 (type species)
• †Jefitchia spinosa Jonet, 1979

References

1. "†Jefitchia claybornensis Koken 1888 (ray-finned fish)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
2. "†Jefitchia copelandi Frizzell and Dante 1965 (ray-finned fish)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 12 May 2023.

Further reading

• Mateus, Octávio; Estraviz López, Darío; Mateus, Simao (2022). "Type specimens alone have a strong correlation with taxa record by geological epoch: the case study of the fossil vertebrates named from Portuguese types". Comunicações Geológicas. 109: 57–64.
• Jun A. Ebersole; David J. Cicimurri & Gary L. Stringer (2019). "Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths". European Journal of Taxonomy.