Saurostomus Agassiz 1833 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae

Synonym: Lycodus Quenstedt 1858

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome II (1re livraison) 1-48

Parent taxon: Asthenocorminae according to R. Weis et al. 2024

See also Cooper et al. 2022, Cooper and Maxwell 2022, Owen 1859, Sepkoski 2002 and Wenz 1967

Sister taxa: Asthenocormus, Bonnerichthys, Germanostomus, Leedsichthys, Martillichthys, Ohmdenia, Pachycormus, Rhinconichthys

Subtaxa: Saurostomus esocinus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (2 collections), Germany (11), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 17 collections including 20 occurrences

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