Osteichthyes - Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Full reference: W. K. Gregory. 1923. A Jurassic Fish Fauna from Western Cuba, with an arrangement of the families of Holostean Ganoid Fishes. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History XLVIII:223-242
Belongs to Leptolepis according to W. K. Gregory 1923
Sister taxa: Leptolepis africana, Leptolepis autissiodorensis, Leptolepis bahiaensis, Leptolepis brodiei, Leptolepis caudalis, Leptolepis concentricus, Leptolepis contractus, Leptolepis coryphaenoides, Leptolepis crassus, Leptolepis disjectus, Leptolepis dubius, Leptolepis gregarius, Leptolepis jaegeri, Leptolepis koonwarri, Leptolepis longus, Leptolepis lowei, Leptolepis macrolepidotus, Leptolepis macrophthalmus, Leptolepis neocomiensis, Leptolepis neumayri, Leptolepis nevadensis, Leptolepis normandica, Leptolepis polyspondylus, Leptolepis saltviciensis, Leptolepis sprattiformis, Leptolepis talbragarensis, Leptolepis tenellus, Leptolepis voithii
Type specimen: AMNH 7939, a partial skeleton (a crushed head and pectoral region showing several vertebrae, and some slender ribs). Its type locality is Lowest Jurassic one mile east of Constancia by Barnum Brown, which is in a Kimmeridgian marine horizon in Cuba.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Lowest Jurassic one mile east of Constancia by Barnum Brown
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