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Genus: | †Sakamenichthys Lehman, Château, Laurain et Nauche, 1959
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†Sakamenichthys germaini Lehman, Château, Laurain et Nauche, 1959
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Sakamenichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Madagascar.[3][1] Fossils were recovered from beds of the Middle Sakamena Formation of the Beroroha basin in the southern part of the island.[3]
Sakamenichthys was first assigned to the family Catopteridae, but was later tentatively referred to the order Redfieldiiformes.[2]