Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Pygopteridae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome II (1re livraison) 1-48
Parent taxon: Pygopteridae according to I. Hoşgör and S. Štamberg 2014
See also Aldinger 1937, Hay 1902, King 1850, Stensiö 1921 and Woodward 1891
Sister taxa: Briveichthys, Itararichthys, Zaborichthys
Subtaxa: Pygopterus bonnardi Pygopterus concavus Pygopterus crecelii Pygopterus degeeri Pygopterus gleerupi Pygopterus greenockii Pygopterus humboldti Pygopterus jamesoni Pygopterus latus Pygopterus lucius Pygopterus nielseni Pygopterus scoticus Pygopterus sculptus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of France (4 collections), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5)
• Permian of Germany (10), Greenland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (9)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1)
Total: 34 collections including 36 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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