Actinopteri - Holostei - Dapediidae
Full reference: E. E. Maxwell and A. López-Arbarello. 2018. A new species of the deep-bodied actinopterygian Dapedium from the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) of southwestern Germany. PeerJ 6:e5033
Belongs to Dapedium according to E. E. Maxwell and A. López-Arbarello 2018
Sister taxa: Dapedium angulifer, Dapedium caelatum, Dapedium colei, Dapedium dorsalis, Dapedium granulatum, Dapedium magnevillei, Dapedium milloti, Dapedium noricum, Dapedium orbis, Dapedium pholidotum, Dapedium politum, Dapedium punctatum, Dapedium radiatum, Dapedium stollorum, Dapedius caelatus, Dapedius costai, Dapedius inornatus, Dapedius pholidotus, Dapedius punctatus, Amblyurus novus, Amblyurus macrostomus
Type specimen: SMNS 96990, a skeleton. Its type locality is Pliensbach near Zell unter Aichelberg, which is in an Opalinum offshore shale in the Opalinuston Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Pliensbach near Zell unter Aichelberg
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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