Osteichthyes - Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Alternative combinations: Acidorhynchus brevirostris, Belonorhynchus brevirostris
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544
Belongs to Saurorhynchus according to E. E. Maxwell and S. Stumpf 2017
See also Delsate 1997, Kogan 2016, Wenz 1967 and Woodward 1895
Sister taxa: Saurorhynchus acutus, Saurorhynchus anningae, Saurorhynchus hauffi
Type specimen: BMNH 40726, a skull. Its type locality is Lyme Regis, Lower Lias unspecified (BMNH), which is in a Sinemurian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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