Apateolepis Woodward 1890 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae

Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1890. The fossil fishes of the Hawkesbury Series at Gosford. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Palaeontology 4:1-57

Parent taxon: Palaeoniscidae according to A. S. Woodward 1890

See also Woodward 1891

Sister taxa: Alvinichthys, Ambodipia, Canobius, Carboveles, Cryphiolepis, Cycloptychius, Dicellopyge, Ferganiscus, Ganolepis, Gonatodus, Grygorichthys, Guizhouniscus, Gyrolepis, Holurus, Isodus, Isodus leptognathus, Koinichthys, Myriolepis, Nematoptychius, Oxygnathus, Palaeoniscum, Palaeoniscus, Paraeurynotus, Rhadinoniscus, Semionotus brodei, Sixtelia, Strepheoschema, Suchonichthys, Tegeolepis, Trachelacanthus, Turfania, Turseodus, Wayaobulepis

Subtaxa: Apateolepis australis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gosford Quarry (BMNH coll) (Triassic of Australia)

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