Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Macrosemiidae

Synonym: Rhynchoncodes Costa 1850

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1834. Abgerissene Bemerkungen über fossile Fische. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1834:379-390

Parent taxon: Macrosemiidae according to A. López-Arbarello 2012

See also D'Erasmo 1914, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodward 1895

Sister taxa: Agoultichthys, Eosemionotus, Histionotus, Legnonotus, Macrosemiocotzus, Macrosemius, Notagogus

Subtaxa: Propterus microstomus Propterus scacchii Propterus serratus

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Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Civita di Pietraroja (upper plattenkalk) (Cretaceous of Italy)

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