Chelyophorus griffithii M'Coy 1848 (armour-plated fish)

Placodermi - Ptyctodontiformes - Ptyctodontidae

Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1848. On some new Fossil Fish of the Carboniferous Period. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 2:1-10

Belongs to Chelyophorus according to F. M'Coy 1848

Sister taxa: Chelyophorus pskovensis, Chelyophorus verneuili

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cultra, Holywood near Belfast, which is in a Pennsylvanian marine shale in the United Kingdom

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cultra, Holywood near Belfast

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