Pteronisculus White 1933 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Actinopterygii

Synonym: Glaucolepis Stensiƶ 1921 [replaced name]

Full reference: E. I. White. 1933. New Triassic Palaeoniscids from Madagascar. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series 10:118-128

Parent taxon: Actinopterygii according to I. Cavicchini et al. 2025

See also Beltan 1968, Friedman et al. 2010, Lehman 1952, Nielsen 1942, Ren and Xu 2021, Romano et al. 2019, Scheyer et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Stensiƶ 1921, Uyeno 1978, White 1933 and Xu et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Pteronisculus aldingeri Pteronisculus arambourgi Pteronisculus arcticus Pteronisculus broughi Pteronisculus changae Pteronisculus cicatrosus Pteronisculus gunnari Pteronisculus gyrolepidoides Pteronisculus laetus Pteronisculus macropterus Pteronisculus magna Pteronisculus meiringi Pteronisculus nevadanus Pteronisculus nielseni Pteronisculus stensioi

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Triassic of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), China (3), Greenland (10), Madagascar (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 24 collections including 34 occurrences

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