Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Full reference: B. G. Gardiner. 1969. New palaeoniscoid fish from the Witteberg series of South Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 48(4):423-452
Belongs to Mentzichthys according to B. G. Gardiner 1969
Sister taxa: Mentzichthys maraisi, Mentzichthys theroni, Mentzichthys walshi
Type specimen: Geological Survey of South Africa, Pretoria, a partial skeleton (a tolerably complete fish with tail and tip of the snout missing). Its type locality is Schiethoogte 279, which is in a Tournaisian lacustrine - large mudstone/marl in the Waaiport Formation of South Africa.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Schiethoogte 279
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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