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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Superorder: | Acanthopterygii |
| Genus: | †Cryptoberyx Gaudant, 1978 |
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Cryptoberyx is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the late Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.123 Two species are known from southern Europe and the Middle East, both part of the former Tethys Sea.
The following species are known:45
- †C. minimus Gaudant, 1978 (type species) - Cenomanian of Lebanon (Sannine Formation)3
- †C. brevis Gaudant, 1978 - Cenomanian of Portugal
The holotype of C. minimus was initially used by Arthur Smith Woodward as a paratype of Lissoberyx dayi, until later studies found it to represent a different genus entirely.3
Cryptoberyx was previously considered a beryciform under a former paraphyletic view of the order (which also included the Trachichthyiformes and Holocentriformes), as a stem-group "trachichthyoid".6 With the splitting of these two orders, its taxonomic identity is unclear.47
References
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- Gaudant, Mireille (1978-01-01). "Implications taxonomiques du caractere composite de l'hypodigme du genre Lissoberyx Patterson (poisson teleosteen, beryciforme): Creation du genre Cryptoberyx". Geobios. 11 (5): 787–791. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(78)80012-6. ISSN 0016-6995.
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- Patterson, Colin (1993-01-01). "An Overview of the Early Fossil Record of Acanthomorphs". Bulletin of Marine Science. 52 (1): 29–59.
- Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Than-Marchese, Bruno Andrés (2013). "The first record of a North American Cenomanian Trachichthyidae fish (Acanthomorpha, Acanthopterygii), Pepemkay maya, gen. et sp. nov., from El Chango Quarry (Sierra Madre Formation), Chiapas, Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (1): 48–57. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.712585. ISSN 0272-4634.