Brittagnathus minutus Ahlberg and Clack 2020 (tetrapod)

Osteichthyes - Tetrapoda

Full reference: P. E. Ahlberg and J. A. Clack. 2020. The smallest known Devonian tetrapod shows unexpectedly derived features. Royal Society Open Science 7(192117)

Belongs to Brittagnathus according to P. E. Ahlberg and J. A. Clack 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMD 116368, a mandible (complete right lower jaw ramus). Its type locality is southeast side of Stensiƶ Bjerg, which is in a Famennian terrestrial sandstone in the Britta Dal Formation of Greenland.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at southeast side of Stensiƶ Bjerg

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