Actinopteri - Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae

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

Belongs to Peltopleurus according to A. S. Woodward 1890

Sister taxa: Peltopleurus dirumptus, Peltopleurus humilis, Peltopleurus kneri, Peltopleurus lissocephalus, Peltopleurus nitidus, Peltopleurus nothocephalus, Peltopleurus nuptialis, Peltopleurus orientalis, Peltopleurus rugosus, Peltopleurus splendens, Peltopleurus tyrannos

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gosford Quarry (BMNH coll), which is in a Spathian/Bithynian lacustrine shale in the Terrigal Formation of Australia

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Gosford Quarry (BMNH coll)

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