Pteroplax cornutus Hancock and Atthey 1868

Osteichthyes - Tetrapoda - Eogyrinidae

Alternative combination: Pteroplax cornuta

Full reference: F. L. S. Hancock and T. Atthey. 1868. Notes on the remains of some reptiles and fishes from the shales of the Northumberland coal-field. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1(4):266-278

Belongs to Pteroplax according to M. J. Boyd 1980

See also Panchen 1970

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: H.M.G. 15.72, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Hannah Pit, Newsham, which is in a Bashkirian terrestrial coal in the Middle Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.

Distribution: found only at Hannah Pit, Newsham

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