Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae

Full reference: F. M. Elliott. 2018. An early actinopterygian ichthyofauna from the Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation: Westphalian A (Bashkirian). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:351-394

Belongs to Rhadinichthys according to F. M. Elliott 2018

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 gracilis, Rhadinichthys grossarti, Rhadinichthys hancocki, Rhadinichthys hibernicus, Rhadinichthys laevis, 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: GLAHM 152831, a partial skull (Skull roof). Its type locality is Greenrigg, which is in a Westphalian A terrestrial shale in the Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Greenrigg

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