Dictyopyge meekeri Schaeffer and McDonald 1978 (ray-finned fish)

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

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