Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Synonym: Microps Agassiz 1833
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1832. Untersuchungen über die fossilen Fische der Lias-Formation. Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 3:139-149
Parent taxon: Pholidophoridae according to G. Arratia 2017
See also Agassiz 1843, Arratia 2013, Gardiner 1960, Hay 1902, Nybelin 1966, Rayner 1948, Sepkoski 2002, Wenz 1967, Woodward 1890, Woodward 1895, Woodward 1919, Zambelli 1980 and Zambelli 1986
Sister taxa: Annaichthys, Archaeomaene, Ceneichthys, Ceramurus, Eopholidophorus, Knerichthys, Lombardichthys, Malingichthys, Neopholidophoropsis, Parapholidophorus, Pholidoctenus, Pholidolepis, Pholidophoretes, Pholidophorinae, Pholidophoroides, Pholidophoropsis, Pseudopholidoctenus, Zambellichthys
Subtaxa: Pholidophorus angustus Pholidophorus australis Pholidophorus barazzettii Pholidophorus brevis Pholidophorus browni Pholidophorus curionii Pholidophorus dubius Pholidophorus furcatus Pholidophorus gaudryi Pholidophorus germanicus Pholidophorus gracilis Pholidophorus granulatus Pholidophorus gregarius Pholidophorus hartmanni Pholidophorus higginsi Pholidophorus intermedius Pholidophorus latimanus Pholidophorus latiusculus Pholidophorus latus Pholidophorus longiserratus Pholidophorus macrocephalus Pholidophorus maximus Pholidophorus microlepidotus Pholidophorus micronyx Pholidophorus microps Pholidophorus minor Pholidophorus nitidus Pholidophorus onychius Pholidophorus ornatus Pholidophorus pachysomus Pholidophorus purbeckensis Pholidophorus pusillus Pholidophorus radians Pholidophorus radiatopunctatus Pholidophorus spaethi Pholidophorus stricklandi Pholidophorus striolaris Pholidophorus taxis Pholidophorus uraeoides
Ecology: suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Chile (1), France (6), Germany (6), Italy (3), the United Kingdom (13)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Australia (2), Austria (10), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (9), South Africa (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 64 collections including 84 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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