Dapedoglossus aequipinnis Cope 1878 (arowana)

Osteichthyes - Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae

Alternative combination: Phareodus aequipinnis

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1878. Descriptions of fishes from the Cretaceous and Tertiary deposits west of the MIssissippi River. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey 4:67-77

Belongs to Dapedoglossus according to A. S. Woodward 1901

See also Cope 1878, Grande 1984 and Hay 1902

Sister taxon: Dapedoglossus testis

Type specimen: Its type locality is F-1, Fossil Lake Jackson Quarry, which is in a Wasatchian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at F-1, Fossil Lake Jackson Quarry

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.