Cavanacanthus warrooensis Lindley 2000 (spiny fish)

Acanthodii - Ischnacanthiformes - Ischnacanthidae

Full reference: I. Lindley. 2000. Acanthodian fish remains from the Lower Devonian Cavan Bluff Limestone (Murrumbidgee Group), Taemas district, New South Wales. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 24(1):11-35

Belongs to Cavanacanthus according to I. Lindley 2000

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ANU 60051, a mandible. Its type locality is Section 8628-4, along shore of Lake Burrinjuck, Tates Straight, which is in an Emsian shallow subtidal limestone/shale in the Cavan Bluff Limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Section 8628-4, along shore of Lake Burrinjuck, Tates Straight

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