Pholidophorus spaethi Taverne 1981 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae

Full reference: L. Taverne. 1981. Les Actinoptérygiens de l'Aptien inférieur (Töck) d'Helgoland. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 51:43-82

Belongs to Pholidophorus according to L. Taverne 1981

Sister taxa: Pholidophorus angustus, Pholidophorus australis, Pholidophorus barazzettii, Pholidophorus beggiatianus, Pholidophorus brevis, Pholidophorus browni, Pholidophorus dubius, Pholidophorus furcatus, Pholidophorus gaudryi, Pholidophorus germanicus, Pholidophorus gracilis, Pholidophorus granulatus, Pholidophorus gregarius, Pholidophorus hartmanni, Pholidophorus higginsi, Pholidophorus intermedius, Pholidophorus latimanus, Pholidophorus latiusculus, Pholidophorus latus, Pholidophorus longiserratus, Pholidophorus macrocephalus, Pholidophorus maximus, Pholidophorus microlepidotus, Pholidophorus micronyx, Pholidophorus microps, Pholidophorus minor, Pholidophorus nitidus, Pholidophorus onychius, Pholidophorus ornatus, Pholidophorus pachysomus, Pholidophorus purbeckensis, Pholidophorus pusillus, Pholidophorus radians, Pholidophorus radiatopunctatus, Pholidophorus stricklandi, Pholidophorus striolaris, Pholidophorus taxis, Pholidophorus uraeoides

Type specimen: Its type locality is North coast of Helgoland-Düne (Stühmer collection), which is in an Aptian marine shale in Germany

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at North coast of Helgoland-Düne (Stühmer collection)

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