Pholidophorus ovatus Wagner 1863 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae

Full reference: J. Wagner. 1863. Monographie der fossilien Fische aus den Lithographischen Schiefern Bayerns. Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Munich 9:613-748

Belongs to Pholidophorus according to J. Wagner 1863

Sister taxa: Pholidophorus angustus, Pholidophorus australis, Pholidophorus barazzettii, Pholidophorus beggiatianus, Pholidophorus brevis, Pholidophorus brevivelis, Pholidophorus browni, Pholidophorus dorsetensis, Pholidophorus dubius, Pholidophorus elongatus, Pholidophorus falcifer, Pholidophorus furcatus, Pholidophorus gaudryi, Pholidophorus germanicus, Pholidophorus granulatus, Pholidophorus gregarius, Pholidophorus hartmanni, Pholidophorus higginsi, Pholidophorus intermedius, Pholidophorus latimanus, Pholidophorus latiusculus, Pholidophorus latus, Pholidophorus longiserratus, Pholidophorus macrocephalus, Pholidophorus maximus, Pholidophorus microlepidotus, Pholidophorus micronyx, Pholidophorus microps, Pholidophorus minor, Pholidophorus nitidus, Pholidophorus onychius, Pholidophorus ornatus, Pholidophorus pachysomus, Pholidophorus purbeckensis, Pholidophorus pusillus, Pholidophorus radians, Pholidophorus radiatopunctatus, Pholidophorus spaethi, Pholidophorus stricklandi, Pholidophorus striolaris, Pholidophorus taxis, Pholidophorus uraeoides

Type specimen: Its type locality is Eichstätt (MNHB collection), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Germany (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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