Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Full reference: B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald. 1978. Redfieldiid fishes from the Triassic-Liassic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 159(4):129-174
Belongs to Dictyopyge according to B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald 1978
Sister taxa: Dictyopyge formosa, Dictyopyge illustrans, Dictyopyge macrurus, Dictyopyge robusta, Dictyopyge symmetrica
Type specimen: AMNH 4762, a skeleton. Its type locality is Boscabel Quarry, which is in a Carnian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Tuckahoe Formation of Virginia.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (3: Virginia collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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