Actinopteri - Louwoichthyiformes - Louwoichthyidae
Alternative combinations: Heterolepidotus bellottii, Heterolepidotus belotti
Full reference: G. de Alessandri. 1910. Studii sui pesci Triasici della Lombardia. Memorie della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 7(1):1-145
Belongs to Ctenognathichthys according to A. López-Arbarello et al. 2014
See also Andersson 1916, Bürgin 1992, Bürgin and Herzog 2002, Cartanyà 1999, de Alessandri 1910 and Tintori 1998
Sister taxon: Ctenognathichthys hattichi
Type specimen: PIMUZ T.4349, a skeleton. Its type locality is Perledo (Museo Civico di Como), which is in a Longobardian marine limestone in the Perledo-Varenna Formation of Italy.
Ecology: nektobenthic durophage
Distribution:
• Triassic of Italy (2 collections), Switzerland (9)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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