Lopadichthys, Murray & Zelenitsky & Brinkman & Neuman, 2018

Murray, Alison M., Zelenitsky, Darla K., Brinkman, Donald B. & Neuman, Andrew G., 2018, Two new Palaeocene osteoglossomorphs from Canada, with a reassessment of the relationships of the genus † Joffrichthys, and analysis of diversity from articulated versus microfossil material, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183, pp. 907-944 : 917

† LOPADICHTHYS GEN. NOV.

Type and only known species: † Lopadichthys colwellae sp. nov.

Diagnosis: As for type and only known species.

Derivation of name: The genus is named for the fish being disk or plate shaped, from the Greek lopas or lopados meaning a dish or plate, and the ending ichthys, Greek for fish. Gender is masculine.