Osteichthyes - Paramblypteriformes

Alternative combination: Palaeoniscus decorus

Full reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1850. Palichthyologic Notes. No. 3.—On the Ganoidei Heterocerci. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 6(1-2)

Belongs to Amblypterus according to A. S. Woodward 1891

See also Schultze et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Amblypterus agassizii, Amblypterus arcuatus, Amblypterus baylei, Amblypterus beaumonti, Amblypterus berthieri, Amblypterus bibractensis, Amblypterus carolinae, Amblypterus caudatus, Amblypterus eupterygius, Amblypterus kashmiriensis, Amblypterus lateralis, Amblypterus latus, Amblypterus macropterus, Amblypterus magnus, Amblypterus obliquus, Amblypterus orientalis, Amblypterus ornatus, Amblypterus stewarti, Amblypterus symmetricus, Amblypterus tenuicauda, Amblypterus traquairi

Type specimen: BMNH P.607, P.3420, a skeleton. Its type locality is Commentry (BMNH coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic mudstone in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

Distribution: found only at Commentry (BMNH coll)

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