Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Full reference: L. Grande. 2010. An Empirical Synthetic Pattern Study of Gars (Lepisosteiformes) and closely related species, based mostly on skeletal anatomy. The resurrection of Holostei. Copeia 2A(Supplement):1-871
Belongs to Lepisosteus according to L. Grande 2010
Sister taxa: Lepisosteus glaber, Lepisosteus indicus, Lepisosteus integer, Lepisosteus knieskerni, Lepisosteus nahunticus, Lepisosteus occidentalis, Lepisosteus osseus, Lepisosteus platostomus, Lepisosteus whitneyi, Clastes pustulosus, Clastes lusitanicus
Type specimen: FMNH PF15182, a skeleton. Its type locality is 18-inch-layer, F1-locality, which is in a Lostcabinian lacustrine - large limestone in the Green River Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at 18-inch-layer, F1-locality
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