''Varasichthys'' is an extinct genus of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

that lived during the Oxfordian stage of the

Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third Epoch (geology), epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time scale, geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 143.1 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic stratum, strata.Owen ...

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

Antofagasta Region The Antofagasta Region (, ) is one of Chile's Administrative divisions of Chile, sixteen first-order administrative divisions. Being the second-largest region of Chile in area, it comprises three provinces, Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta, El ...

, northern

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. It has been placed in the family Varasichthyidae together with the genera ''

Bobbichthys ''Bobbichthys'' is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived in what is now Chile during the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It was a member of the Varasichthyidae, a family of potentially crossognathiform fish. It was ...

'', '' Domeykos'', '' Luisichthys'' and ''

Protoclupea ''Protoclupea'' is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived from the Oxfordian to the early Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It contains one species, ''Protoclupea chilensis'', fossils of which have been found in the Domeyko Ra ...

''.

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