Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Alternative combinations: Eomesodon liassicus, Pycnodus liassicus
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 Mesodon according to A. S. Woodward 1895
See also Gardiner 1960
Sister taxa: Typodus abrasus, Typodus annulatus, Typodus diastemicus, Typodus dumblei, Typodus valens, Mesodon tenuidens, Mesodon rugulosus, Mesodon limai, Mesodon sharpei, Mesodon bucklandi
Type specimen: BMNH 19864, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Barrow-on-Soar (Egerton Coll.), which is in a Planorbis marine limestone in the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Belgium (1 collection), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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