Birgeria groenlandica Stensiö 1932 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae

Alternative combination: Birgeria gronlandica

Full reference: E. Stensiö. 1932. Triassic Fishes from East Greenland collected by the Danish expeditions in 1929-1931. Meddelelser om Grønland 83(3):1-305

Belongs to Birgeria according to C. Romano et al. 2017

See also Nielsen 1949, Schultze et al. 2021 and Stensiö 1932

Sister taxa: Birgeria acuminata, Birgeria aldingeri, Birgeria americana, Birgeria costata, Birgeria gronlandica, Birgeria guizhouensis, Birgeria liui, Birgeria mougeoti, Birgeria nielseni, Birgeria stensioei, Birgeria velox, Severnichthys

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cape Stosch on Hold-with-Hope, which is in a Griesbachian marine siliciclastic in Greenland

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Greenland (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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