Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Caturidae
Alternative combination: Amiopsis dartoni
Full reference: C. R. Eastman. 1899. Jurassic fishes from Black Hills of South Dakota. Geological Society America Bulletin 10:397-408
Belongs to Caturus according to B. Schaeffer and C. Patterson 1984
See also Eastman 1899 and Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Caturus agassizi, Caturus angustus, Caturus branchiostegus, Caturus bucklandi, Caturus chaperi, Caturus chirotes, Caturus elongatus, Caturus ferox, Caturus furcatus, Caturus heterurus, Caturus latipennis, Caturus latus, Caturus macrodus, Caturus macrurus, Caturus maximus, Caturus meyeri, Caturus microchirus, Caturus nuchalis, Caturus pachyurus, Caturus pleiodus, Caturus porteri, Caturus retrodorsalis, Caturus similis, Caturus stenospondylus, Caturus stenoura, Uraeus macrurus, Uraeus pachyurus
Type specimen: NMNH 4792, a skeleton. Its type locality is Three-quarters mile southeast of Hot Springs, which is in a Bathonian coastal sandstone in the Sundance Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-piscivore
Distribution: found only at Three-quarters mile southeast of Hot Springs
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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