Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Alternative combination: Cosmolepis egertoni
Full reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1858. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British organic remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Decade IX, Supplement 2 Pl 1-Pl 10
Belongs to Oxygnathus according to A. S. Woodward 1890
See also Egerton 1858 and Woodward 1891
Sister taxa: Oxygnathus browni, Oxygnathus ornatus, Pteroniscus
Type specimen: BMNH P.3508, a skeleton. Its type locality is Barrow-on-Soar, Enniskillen collection, which is in a Planorbis marine limestone in the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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