Histionotus oberndorferi Wagner 1863 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Macrosemiiformes - Macrosemiidae

Full reference: J. Wagner. 1863. Monographie der fossilien Fische aus den Lithographischen Schiefern Bayerns. Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Munich 9:613-748

Belongs to Histionotus according to A. S. Woodward 1895

Sister taxa: Histionotus angularis, Histionotus falsani, Histionotus parvus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Neukelheim Grünsandstein, which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in the Grünsandstein Formation of Germany

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Neukelheim Grünsandstein

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