Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Polymerichthyidae

Full reference: T. Uyeno. 1967. A Miocene Alepisauroid Fish of a New Family, Polymerichthyidae, from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 10(3):383-392

Belongs to Polymerichthys according to M. V. Nazarkin 2016

See also Uyeno 1967

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NSMT 6599, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Horaigi Railroad Station, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Tubozawa Formation of Japan.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Horaigi Railroad Station

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.