Paulo Marques Machado Brito, ichthyologist, palaeontologist.

• Departamento de Biologia Animal e Vegetal, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, rua São Francisco Xavier 524, Rio de Janeiro, 20559-900, Brazil
• associated researcher of the Laboratoire d’ichtyologie, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, 43, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
• E-mail: [email protected]

Taxon names authored

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• 14 taxon names authored by Paulo M. Brito

Publications

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• Wenz, S. & Brito, P.M. 1992. Première découverte de Lepisosteidae (Pisces, Actinopterygii) dans le Crétacé inférieur de la Chapada do Araripe (N-E, du Brésil). Conséquences sur la phylogénie des Ginglymodi. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paléontologie 314(II): 1519–1525. Reference page. 
• Brito, P.M. 2000. A new halecomorph with two dorsal fins, Placidichthys bidorsalis n. g., n. sp. (Actinopterygii: Halecomorphi) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil. Earth and Planetary Sciences 331: 749–754. DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(00)01477-4 Reference page. 
• Brito, P. M. & Alvarado-Ortega, J., 2013: Cipactlichthys scutatus from the Lower Cretaceous Tlayua Formation of Mexico. PLoS ONE, 8 (9): 0073551. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073551 Reference page. 
• Mayrinck, D., Brito, P.M. & Otero, O. 2014. Review of the osteology of the fossil fish formerly attributed to the genus †Chanoides and implications for the definition of otophysan bony characters. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(5): 397–420. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.893260 Reference page. 
• Alvarado-Ortega, J., Brito, P.M., Porras-Múzquiz, H.G. & Mújica-Monroy, I.H. 2015. A Late Cretaceous marine long snout "pejelagarto" fish (Lepisosteidae, Lepisosteini) from Múzquiz, Coahuila, northeastern Mexico. Cretaceous Research 57 [2016]: 19–28. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.009 Reference page. 
• Yabumoto, Y. & Brito, P.M. 2016. A new Triassic Coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia. Paleontological Research 20(3): 233–246. DOI: 10.2517/2015PR033 Reference page. 
• Alvarado-Ortega, J. & Brito, P.M. 2016. A Jurassic pleuropholid fish (Teleostei, Pleuropholidae) in the Tethys Sea domain of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36(5): e1201767. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1201767 Reference page.