Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Full reference: P. Brito and M. Ebert. 2009. A new aspidorhynchid fish (Teleostei: Aspidorhynchiformes) from the Upper Jurassic of Ettling, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany. Comptes Rendus Palevol 8(4):395-402
Belongs to Aspidorhynchus according to P. Brito and M. Ebert 2009
Sister taxa: Aspidorhynchus acutirostris, Aspidorhynchus comptoni, Aspidorhynchus crassus, Aspidorhynchus euodus, Aspidorhynchus fisheri, Aspidorhynchus lepturus, Aspidorhynchus mandibularis, Aspidorhynchus montissancti, Aspidorhynchus ornatissimus, Aspidorhynchus speciosus, Aspidorhynchus walchneri
Type specimen: JME-ETT1, a skeleton. Its type locality is Ettling, 50 km E-SE of Solnhofen, southern Franconian Alb, which is in a Tithonian marine siliciclastic in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ettling, 50 km E-SE of Solnhofen, southern Franconian Alb
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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