†Meisenheimichthys breitenheimensis Poschmann and Schindler 2004 (ray-finned fish)
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Type specimen originally described as Elonichthys palatinus
Full reference: M. Poschmann and T. Schindler. 2004. Sitters and Grügelborn, two important Fossil-Lagerstaetten in the Rotliegend (?Late Carboniferous - Early Permian) of the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany), with the description of a new palaeoniscoid (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 232:283-314
Belongs to Meisenheimichthys according to M. Poschmann and T. Schindler 2004
Sister taxa: Meisenheimichthys glanensis, Meisenheimichthys palatinus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Sitters (Permian of Germany)
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