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 glabrolepis, 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 renieri, Rhadinichthys rioniger, Rhadinichthys tuberculatus, Rhadinichthys vagus, Rhadinichthys wardi

Type specimen: GLAHM 152845, a skeleton (slab of shale containing disarticulated specimen). Its type locality is Ardenrigg Colliery, pit number 6, Wester Bracco, which is in a Westphalian A fluvial-deltaic shale/coal in the Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ardenrigg Colliery, pit number 6, Wester Bracco

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