''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 ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

during the

Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous ( chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 145 Ma to 100.5 Ma. Geology Pr ...

(

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 ± ...

) 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 {{albuliformes-stub