Willomorichthys striatulus Gardiner 1969 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Rhadinichthyiformes - Willomorichthyidae

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 Willomorichthys according to B. G. Gardiner 1969

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SAM, a partial skeleton (a rather distorted fish with tail missing). Its type locality is Soetendalsvlei, which is in a Tournaisian lacustrine - large mudstone/marl in the Waaiport Formation of South Africa.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of South Africa (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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