Pteronisculus changae Ren and Xu 2021 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Actinopterygii

Full reference: Y. Ren and G. H. Xu. 2021. A new species of Pteronisculus from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Luoping, Yunnan, China, and phylogenetic relationships of early actinopterygian fishes. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 59:169-199

Belongs to Pteronisculus according to Y. Ren and G. H. Xu 2021

Sister taxa: Pteronisculus aldingeri, Pteronisculus arambourgi, Pteronisculus arcticus, Pteronisculus broughi, Pteronisculus cicatrosus, Pteronisculus gunnari, Pteronisculus gyrolepidoides, Pteronisculus laetus, Pteronisculus macropterus, Pteronisculus magna, Pteronisculus meiringi, Pteronisculus nevadanus, Pteronisculus nielseni, Pteronisculus stensioi

Type specimen: IVPP V 18994, a skeleton. Its type locality is Dawazi, Luoping County (IVPP coll), which is in a Pelsonian carbonate lime mudstone in the Guanling Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dawazi, Luoping County (IVPP coll)

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