Osteichthyes - Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Full reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1849. Taxonomic names, in Notice on the discovery of a dragon-fly and a new species of Leptolepis in the upper Lias near Cheltenham, with a few remarks on that formation in Gloucestershire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 5:31-37
Belongs to Leptolepis according to P. M. G. Egerton 1849
Sister taxa: Leptolepis africana, Leptolepis autissiodorensis, Leptolepis bahiaensis, Leptolepis brodiei, Leptolepis caudalis, Leptolepis contractus, Leptolepis coryphaenoides, Leptolepis crassus, Leptolepis disjectus, Leptolepis dubius, Leptolepis gregarius, Leptolepis jaegeri, Leptolepis koonwarri, Leptolepis longus, Leptolepis lowei, Leptolepis macrolepidotus, Leptolepis macrophthalmus, Leptolepis neocomiensis, Leptolepis neumayri, Leptolepis nevadensis, Leptolepis normandica, Leptolepis polyspondylus, Leptolepis saltviciensis, Leptolepis sprattiformis, Leptolepis talbragarensis, Leptolepis tenellus, Leptolepis voithii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dumbleton, Gloucestershire (Brodie coll.), which is in a Toarcian marine limestone in the United Kingdom
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Dumbleton, Gloucestershire (Brodie coll.)
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