Osteichthyes - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome II (1re livraison) 1-48
Parent taxon: Pycnodontidae according to A. S. Woodward 1918
See also Cope 1878, Hay 1899 and Woodward 1895
Sister taxa: Acrotemnus, Agoultpycnodus, Anomoeodus, Athrodon, Brauccipycnodus, Callodus, Coelodus, Costapycnodus, Flagellipinna, Gregoriopycnodus, Hadrodus, Haqelpycnodus, Iemanja, Macromesodon, Mesodon, Njoerdichthys, Nonaphalagodus, Nursalliinae, Ocloedus, Polypsephis, Proscincetes, Proscinetes, Proscinetinae, Pycnodontinae, Pycnomicrodon, Rhinopycnodus, Stemmatodus, Stenamara, Xenopholis
Subtaxa: Microdon abdominalis Microdon analis Microdon biserialis Microdon discoides Microdon penalvai
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of France (2), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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