†Histionotus angularis Egerton 1854 (ray-finned fish)
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Osteichthyes - Macrosemiiformes - Macrosemiidae
Full reference: P. Egerton. 1854. On some new genera and species of fossil fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 13:433-436
Belongs to Histionotus according to A. W. H. Bartram 1977
See also Woodward 1895 and Woodward 1918
Sister taxa: Histionotus falsani, Histionotus oberndorferi, Histionotus parvus
Type specimen: BMNH P.577, a skeleton. Its type locality is Swanage (BMNH fish coll.), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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