Alternative combination: Glaucolepis aldingeri
Full reference: E. Nielsen. 1942. Studies on Triassic fishes from East Greenland. 1. Glaucolepis and Boreosomus. Palaeozoologica Groenlandica 1:1-403
Belongs to Pteronisculus according to Y. Ren and G. H. Xu 2021
See also Nielsen 1942
Sister taxa: Pteronisculus arambourgi, Pteronisculus arcticus, Pteronisculus broughi, Pteronisculus changae, Pteronisculus cicatrosus, Pteronisculus gunnari, Pteronisculus gyrolepidoides, Pteronisculus laetus, Pteronisculus macropterus, Pteronisculus magna, Pteronisculus meiringi, Pteronisculus nevadanus, Pteronisculus nielseni, Pteronisculus stensioi
Type specimen: 66, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Kap Stosch area, Fish-zone III, which is in a Griesbachian marine limestone in Greenland.
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Greenland (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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