Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
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 Pholidophorus according to A. S. Woodward 1895
See also Egerton 1854
Sister taxa: Pholidophorus angustus, Pholidophorus australis, Pholidophorus barazzettii, Pholidophorus brevis, Pholidophorus browni, Pholidophorus curionii, Pholidophorus dubius, Pholidophorus furcatus, Pholidophorus gaudryi, Pholidophorus germanicus, Pholidophorus gracilis, Pholidophorus granulatus, Pholidophorus gregarius, Pholidophorus hartmanni, Pholidophorus intermedius, Pholidophorus latimanus, Pholidophorus latiusculus, Pholidophorus latus, Pholidophorus longiserratus, Pholidophorus macrocephalus, Pholidophorus maximus, Pholidophorus microlepidotus, Pholidophorus micronyx, Pholidophorus microps, Pholidophorus minor, Pholidophorus nitidus, Pholidophorus onychius, Pholidophorus ornatus, Pholidophorus pachysomus, Pholidophorus purbeckensis, Pholidophorus pusillus, Pholidophorus radians, Pholidophorus radiatopunctatus, Pholidophorus spaethi, Pholidophorus stricklandi, Pholidophorus striolaris, Pholidophorus taxis, Pholidophorus uraeoides
Type specimen: BMNH P.578, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Aust Cliff bone bed (BMNH coll), which is in a Rhaetian coastal conglomerate in the Westbury Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of the United Kingdom (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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