Paralepidosteus Arambourg and Joleaud 1943 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Aetheospondyli

Full reference: C. Arambourg and L. Joleaud. 1943. Vertébrés fossiles du bassin du Niger [Fossil vertebrates of the Niger basin]. Bulletin de la Service des Mines de l'Afrique Occidentale Française 7:28-85

Parent taxon: Lepidosteidae according to C. Arambourg and L. Joleaud 1943

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Atractosteus, Clastes aganus, Clastes cycliferus, Cuneatus, Lepidosteus, Lepidosteus bohemicus, Lepisosteinae, Lepisosteus, Lepisosteus cominatoi, Masillosteus, Nhanulepisosteus, Oniichthys, Paralepidosteus africanus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Paralepidosteus in the database

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