Palaeomolgophis scoticus Brough and Brough 1967 (lobe-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Adelospondyli - Adelogyrinidae

Full reference: M. C. Brough and J. Brough. 1967. Studies on Early Tetrapods I: The Lower Carboniferous Microsaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 252(776):107-129

Belongs to Palaeomolgophis according to M. C. Brough and J. Brough 1967

See also Carroll et al. 1998

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: R.S.M.1902.100.1, a skeleton. Its type locality is Curly Shale, Pumpherston, which is in a Visean terrestrial horizon in the United Kingdom.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Curly Shale, Pumpherston

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