Pteronisculus cicatrosus White 1933 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Actinopterygii

Full reference: E. I. White. 1933. New Triassic Palaeoniscids from Madagascar. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series 10:118-128

Belongs to Pteronisculus according to T. Uyeno 1978

See also Lehman 1952 and White 1933

Sister taxa: Pteronisculus aldingeri, Pteronisculus arambourgi, Pteronisculus arcticus, Pteronisculus broughi, Pteronisculus changae, Pteronisculus gunnari, Pteronisculus gyrolepidoides, Pteronisculus laetus, Pteronisculus macropterus, Pteronisculus magna, Pteronisculus meiringi, Pteronisculus nevadanus, Pteronisculus nielseni, Pteronisculus stensioi

Type specimen: BMNH P16300-1, a skeleton. Its type locality is Ambarakaraka and Andogozobé (BMNH collection), which is in a Dienerian marine horizon in Madagascar.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Madagascar (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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