Khantausia tshuiliensis Prokofiev 2005 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Palaeoniscimorpha

Full reference: A. M. Prokofiev. 2005. An interesting new palaeoniscoid actinopterygian (Osteichthyes) from the lower Permian of Southwestern Kazakhstan. Paleontological Research 9(1):85-92

Belongs to Khantausia according to A. M. Prokofiev 2005

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN nr. 4890-4, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Tshu-Ili Mountains, Altmaaty region, which is in an Asselian/Kungurian marine siltstone in the Khantausskaya Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Tshu-Ili Mountains, Altmaaty region

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