Osteichthyes - Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Full reference: E. E. Maxwell and S. Stumpf. 2017. Revision of Saurorhynchus (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from the Early Jurassic of England and Germany. European Journal of Taxonomy 321:1-29
Belongs to Saurorhynchus according to E. E. Maxwell and S. Stumpf 2017
Sister taxa: Saurorhynchus acutus, Saurorhynchus anningae, Saurorhynchus brevirostris
Type specimen: SMNS 55057, a skeleton. Its type locality is Zell unter Aichelberg, epsilon II-4 (SMNS collection), which is in a Toarcian marine shale in the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (13 collections), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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