Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Belongs to Rhadinichthys according to R. H. Traquair 1911
Sister taxa: Rhadinichthys alberti, Rhadinichthys angustulus, Rhadinichthys argentinicus, Rhadinichthys athertonensis, Rhadinichthys bearsdeni, Rhadinichthys brevis, Rhadinichthys cairnsii, Rhadinichthys canobiensis, Rhadinichthys carinatus, Rhadinichthys ferox, Rhadinichthys flexuosus, Rhadinichthys formosus, Rhadinichthys glabrolepis, Rhadinichthys gracilis, Rhadinichthys grossarti, Rhadinichthys hancocki, Rhadinichthys hibernicus, Rhadinichthys leidyianus, Rhadinichthys lerichei, Rhadinichthys lineatus, Rhadinichthys macconochiei, Rhadinichthys macconochii, Rhadinichthys macrodon, Rhadinichthys monensis, Rhadinichthys ornatissimus, Rhadinichthys ornatocephalum, Rhadinichthys plumosum, Rhadinichthys renieri, Rhadinichthys rioniger, Rhadinichthys tuberculatus, Rhadinichthys vagus, Rhadinichthys wardi
Type specimen: GS 4705, NHM P.15320 (part and counterpart), a skeleton. Its type locality is Tarras Waterfoot, which is in a Holkerian terrestrial sandstone in the Calciferous Sandstone Series Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Tarras Waterfoot
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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