Schizolepis Gottfried 1992 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Palaeoniscoidea

Full reference: M.D. Gottfried. 1992. A new deep-scaled "palaeoniscoid" from the Kinney Quarry, Late Pennsylvanian of New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:189-196

Parent taxon: Palaeoniscoidea according to M.D. Gottfried 1992

Sister taxa: Acanthoniscus, Centrolepidae

Subtaxa: Schizolepis manzanitaensis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kinney Quarry Fish beds (Carboniferous of New Mexico)

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