Caturus porteri Rayner 1948 (bowfin)

Actinopteri - 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 dartoni, Caturus elongatus, Caturus ferox, Caturus furcatus, Caturus heterurus, Caturus latipennis, Caturus latus, Caturus macrodus, Caturus macrurus, Caturus maximus, Caturus meyeri, Caturus microchirus, Caturus nuchalis, Caturus pachyurus, Caturus pleiodus, Caturus retrodorsalis, Caturus similis, Caturus stenospondylus, Caturus stenoura, Uraeus pachyurus, Uraeus macrurus

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

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