Meisenheimichthys breitenheimensis Poschmann and Schindler 2004 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes

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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