Limanichthys fraseri Challands et al. 2019 (lungfish)

Osteichthyes - Dipnomorpha

Full reference: T. J. Challands, T. R. Smithson, J. A. Clack, C. E. Bennett, J. E. A. Marshall, S. M. Wallace-Johnson, and H. Hill. 2019. A lungfish survivor of the end-Devonian extinction and an Early Carboniferous dipnoan radiation. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Belongs to Limanichthys according to T. J. Challands et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMS G. 2017.10.2a (part), b (counterpart)., a partial skull. Its type locality is Burnmouth Limanichthys type locality, which is in a Tournaisian floodplain siltstone in the Ballagan Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Burnmouth Limanichthys type locality

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