Gigantopterus Abel 1906 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Peltopleuriformes - Thoracopteridae

Full reference: O. Abel. 1906. Fossile Flugfische. Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 46:1-88

Parent taxon: Thoracopteridae according to C. C. Shen and G. Arratia 2022

See also Griffith 1977 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Italopterus, Moradebrichthys, Potanichthys, Thoracopterus

Subtaxa: Gigantopterus telleri

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Type: Gigantopterus telleri

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Polzberg bei Lunz (NHMW collection) (Triassic of Austria)

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