Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Full reference: D. Thies. 1989. Lepidotes gloriae, sp. nov. (Actinopterygii: Semionotiformes) from the Late Jurassic of Cuba. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(1):18-40
Belongs to Lepidotes according to D. Thies 1989
Sister taxa: Lepidotes dashanpuensis, Lepidotes elvensis, Lepidotes gigas, Lepidotes lennieri, Lepidotes macropterus, Lepidotes microrhis, Lepidotes pankowskii, Lepidotes semiserratus, Lepidotes tanyrhis, Lepidotes toombsi, Lepidotes walcotti, Lepidotes wenzae, Lepidotus affinis, Lepidotus fimbriatus, Lepidotus fittoni, Lepidotus frondosus, Lepidotus gallineki, Lepidotus latifrons, Lepidotus leedsi, Lepidotus lusitanicus, Lepidotus macrocheirus, Lepidotus maximiliani, Lepidotus minor, Lepidotus oblongus, Lepidotus occidentalis, Lepidotus palliatus, Lepidotus parvulus, Lepidotus piauhyensis, Lepidotus pustulatus, Lepidotus radiatus, Lepidotus rugosus, Lepidotus souzai, Lepidotus speciosus, Lepidotus striatus, Lepidotus subdenticulatus, Lepidotus subovatus, Lepidotus subundatus, Lepidotus tuberculatus, Lepidotus undatus, Lepidotus unguiculatus, Lepidotus virleti
Type specimen: USNM 279856, a skeleton. Its type locality is Hoyo de San Antonio, which is in an Oxfordian marine limestone in the Jagua Formation of Cuba.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Hoyo de San Antonio
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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