Osteichthyes - Tetraodontiformes - Protriacanthidae

Full reference: J. C. Tyler and L. Sorbini. 1996. New superfamily and three new families of tetraodontiform fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The earliest and most morphologically primitive plectognaths. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 82:1-59

Parent taxon: Plectocretacicoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Santini and Tyler 2003 and Tyler and Sorbini 1996

Sister taxa: Plectocretacicidae, Plectocretacicoidea

Subtaxa: Protriacanthus

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Type: Protriacanthus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Comen (Cretaceous of Slovenia)

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