Hispanamia newbreyi MartÍn-Abad and Poyato-Ariza 2017 (bowfin)

Osteichthyes - Amiiformes - Amiidae

Full reference: H. MartÍn-Abad and F. J. Poyato-Ariza. 2017. A new genus and species for the amiiform fishes previously assigned to Amiopsis from the Early Cretaceous of Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spain. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181(3):604-637

Belongs to Hispanamia according to H. MartÍn-Abad and F. J. Poyato-Ariza 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCCM LH 9645a/b, a skeleton. Its type locality is Las Hoyas (Autonomous University of Madrid collection), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in Spain.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-piscivore

Distribution: found only at Las Hoyas (Autonomous University of Madrid collection)

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