Osteichthyes - Holostei - Ophiopsidae

Full reference: A. W. H. Bartram. 1975. The holostean fish genus Ophiopsis Agassiz. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 56(3):183-205

Parent taxon: Holostei according to M. Friedman et al. 2010

See also Bartram 1975, Lane and Ebert 2015, Machado et al. 2013, Taverne 2014 and van der Laan 2019

Sister taxa: Amiiformes, Arotus, Aspidorhynchoidea, Chilingosaurus chingshankouensis, Holcodon, Pholidophoroidea, Promecosominidae, Sangiorgioichthys, Semionotoidaea, Semionotoidea, Ticinolepis

Subtaxa: Congophiopsis

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Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Canjuers-Les Bessons quarry (micronatum biozone) (Jurassic of France)

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