Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Tetraodontidae
Full reference: G. Carnevale and J. C. Tyler. 2010. Review of the fossil pufferfish genus Archaeotetraodon (Teleostei, Tetraodontidae), with description of three new taxa from the Miocene of Italy. Geobios 43:283-304
Belongs to Archaeotetraodon according to G. Carnevale and J. C. Tyler 2010
Sister taxa: Archaeotetraodon cerrinaferoni, Archaeotetraodon dicarloi, Archaeotetraodon jamestyleri, Archaeotetraodon winterbottomi, Archaeotetraodon zafaranai
Type specimen: P MRSN 35/125, a skeleton. Its type locality is Pecetto di Valenza, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in Italy.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Pecetto di Valenza
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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