Osteichthyes - Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Full reference: J. Leidy. 1873. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1:1-358
Parent taxon: Osteoglossinae according to G. Q. Li et al. 1997
See also Cantalice et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Khajuria and Prasad 1998, Leidy 1873 and Lim 1996
Sister taxa: Brychaetus, Cretophareodus, Singida, Taverneichthys
Subtaxa: Phareodus acutus Phareodus encaustus Phareodus testis
Type: Phareodus acutus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (5: Wyoming collections)
• Paleocene of Bolivia (1), Mexico (1)
• Paleogene of United States (1: washington)
• Cretaceous of India (6)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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