Osteichthyes - Porolepidiformes - Holoptychiidae
Full reference: H.-P. Schultze. 2000. A porolepiform rhipidistian from the Lower Devonian of the Canadian Arctic. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaften Reihe 3:99-109
Belongs to Nasogaluakus according to H.-P. Schultze 2000
See also Mondéjar‐Fernández et al. 2020
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CMN 51129, a skull (flattened and somewhat disarticulated skull). Its type locality is Standard Oil Co. locality no. AR.25.58, which is in an Emsian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone/dolomite in the Bear Rock Formation of Canada.
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Standard Oil Co. locality no. AR.25.58
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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