Platyrhinops fritschi Werneburg 2012 (bony fish)

Osteichthyes - Amblypteriformes - Coccocephalichthyidae

Belongs to Platyrhinops according to Werneburg 2012

See also Werneburg 2019

Sister taxa: Platyrhinops lyelli, Ichthycanthus ohiensis

Type specimen: NHMW-1983/32/27b, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Nyrany, which is in a Westphalian D lacustrine coal in the Kladno Formation of Czechia.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Nyrany

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