Osteichthyes - Amiiformes - Caturidae
Full reference: D. H. Rayner. 1948. The Structure of Certain Jurassic Holostean Fishes with Special Reference to Their Neurocrania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 233(601):287-345
Belongs to Caturus according to D. H. Rayner 1948
Sister taxa: Caturus agassizi, Caturus angustus, Caturus branchiostegus, Caturus bucklandi, Caturus chaperi, Caturus chirotes, Caturus contractus, Caturus cyprinoides, Caturus dartoni, Caturus deani, Caturus elongatus, Caturus ferox, Caturus furcatus, Caturus grannulatus, Caturus heterurus, Caturus latidens, Caturus latipennis, Caturus latus, Caturus macrodus, Caturus macrurus, Caturus maximus, Caturus meyeri, Caturus microchirus, Caturus nuchalis, Caturus obovatus, Caturus pachyurus, Caturus pleiodus, Caturus purbeckensis, Caturus retrodorsalis, Caturus similis, Caturus stenospondylus, Caturus stenoura, Caturus tarraconensis, Caturus tenuidens, Uraeus macrurus, Uraeus pachyurus
Type specimen: BMNH 29049, a skull. Its type locality is Christian Malford, which is in a Callovian offshore mudstone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-piscivore
Distribution: found only at Christian Malford
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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