Caturus cyprinoides Wagner 1863 (bowfin)

Osteichthyes - Amiiformes - Caturidae

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

Belongs to Caturus according to J. Wagner 1863

Sister taxa: Caturus agassizi, Caturus angustus, Caturus branchiostegus, Caturus bucklandi, Caturus chaperi, Caturus chirotes, Caturus contractus, Caturus dartoni, Caturus deani, Caturus elongatus, Caturus ferox, Caturus furcatus, Caturus grannulatus, Caturus heterurus, Caturus latidens, Caturus latipennis, Caturus latus, Caturus macrodus, Caturus macrurus, Caturus maximus, Caturus meyeri, Caturus microchirus, Caturus nuchalis, Caturus obovatus, Caturus pachyurus, Caturus pleiodus, Caturus porteri, Caturus purbeckensis, Caturus retrodorsalis, Caturus similis, Caturus stenospondylus, Caturus stenoura, Caturus tarraconensis, Caturus tenuidens, Uraeus macrurus, Uraeus pachyurus

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: nektobenthic carnivore-piscivore

Distribution: found only at Eichstätt (MNHB collection)

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