''Varasichthys'' is an extinct genus of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

that lived during the Oxfordian stage of the

Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987. In European lithostratigraphy, the ...

epoch. It contains one species, ''Varasichthys ariasi'', fossils of which have been found in the Domeyko Range of

Antofagasta Region The Antofagasta Region ( es, Región de Antofagasta, ) is one of Chile's sixteen first-order administrative divisions. The second-largest region of Chile in area, it comprises three provinces, Antofagasta, El Loa and Tocopilla. It is border ...

, northern

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

. It has been placed in the family

Varasichthyidae Crossognathiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Eocene. Its phylogenetic placement is disputed; some authors have recovered it as part of the teleost stem group, while others place it in a b ...

together with the genera '' Bobbichthys'', '' Domeykos'', ''

Luisichthys ''Luisichthys'' is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived in what is now Cuba from the Oxfordian to the early Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geolog ...

'' and '' Protoclupea''.

References

Crossognathiformes Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Oxfordian genera Late Jurassic fish Jurassic fish of South America Jurassic Chile Fossils of Chile Fossil taxa described in 1981 {{jurassic-fish-stub