Saurichthys Agassiz 1834 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae

Synonym: Ichthyorhynchus Bellotti 1857

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1834. Abgerissene Bemerkungen über fossile Fische. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1834:379-390

Parent taxon: Saurichthyidae according to F. X. Wu et al. 2018

See also Beltan 1968, Beltan 1972, Bender and Hancox 2004, Bürgin et al. 1991, Cartanyà 1999, Chhabra and Mishra 2002, Gardiner 1960, Kogan and Romano 2016, Lehman 1952, Lehman et al. 1959, Mishra et al. 1990, Mutter et al. 2008, Renesto and Stockar 2009, Rieppel 1985, Romano et al. 2016, Sahni and Chhabra 1976, Sytchevskaya 1999, Tintori et al. 2014, Tintori et al. 2016 and Uyeno 1978

Sister taxa: Brevisaurichthys, Saurorhynchus, Systolichthys, Stenoprotome, Belonorhynchus

Subtaxa: Saurichthys (Costasaurichthys) Saurichthys (Eosaurichthys) Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) Saurichthys (Sinosaurichthys) Saurichthys aculeatus Saurichthys apicalis Saurichthys breviabdominalis Saurichthys calcaratus Saurichthys curionii Saurichthys daubreei Saurichthys dawaziensis Saurichthys deperditus Saurichthys dongusensis Saurichthys eximius Saurichthys gigas Saurichthys gracilis Saurichthys grignae Saurichthys gypsophilus Saurichthys hamiltoni Saurichthys huanshenensis Saurichthys indicus Saurichthys irregularis Saurichthys latifrons Saurichthys lepidosteoides Saurichthys longidens Saurichthys macrocephalus Saurichthys majiashanensis Saurichthys nepalensis Saurichthys obrutchevi Saurichthys orientalis Saurichthys parvidens Saurichthys piveteaui Saurichthys proximus Saurichthys sceltrichensis Saurichthys seefeldensis Saurichthys semicostatus Saurichthys spinosa Saurichthys stensioi Saurichthys striatulus Saurichthys striolatus Saurichthys subulatus Saurichthys tenuirostris Saurichthys tertius Saurichthys ultimus Saurichthys vjuschkovi Saurichthys wimani Saurichthys yangjuanensis Saurichthys yunnanensis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

• Triassic of Australia (4), Austria (4), Belgium (5), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), China (6), France (14), Germany (10), Greenland (3), Hungary (2), India (4), Israel (1), Italy (13), Kyrgyzstan (2), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (6), Nepal (1), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (3), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (11), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (15), Switzerland (39), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Arizona, Idaho, Nevada)

• Severodvinian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 181 collections including 223 occurrences

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