Osteichthyes - Amiiformes - Caturidae
Full reference: H. E. Sauvage. 1903. Noticia sobre los peces de la caliza litográfica de la provincia de Lérida (Cataluña). Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona 3:467-481
Belongs to Caturus according to H. E. Sauvage 1903
Sister taxa: Caturus agassizi, Caturus angustus, Caturus branchiostegus, Caturus bucklandi, Caturus chaperi, Caturus chirotes, Caturus dartoni, Caturus elongatus, Caturus ferox, Caturus furcatus, Caturus heterurus, Caturus latipennis, Caturus latus, Caturus macrodus, Caturus macrurus, Caturus maximus, Caturus meyeri, Caturus microchirus, Caturus nuchalis, Caturus pachyurus, Caturus pleiodus, Caturus porteri, Caturus retrodorsalis, Caturus similis, Caturus stenospondylus, Caturus stenoura, Uraeus macrurus, Uraeus pachyurus
Type specimen: MGB 514, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is La Pedrera de Meià, El Montsec, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large limestone in the La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation of Spain.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-piscivore
Distribution: found only at La Pedrera de Meià, El Montsec
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