Osteichthyes - Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Synonyms: Brevisaurichthys Beltan 1972, Eosaurichthys Liu and Wei 1988, Ichthyorhynchus Bellotti 1857, Saurichthys (Eosaurichthys) Liu and Wei 1988, Saurichthys (Sinosaurichthys) Wu et al. 2011, Sinosaurichthys Wu et al. 2011, Stylorhynchus Martin 1873, Systolichthys Beltan 1972
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1834. Abgerissene Bemerkungen über fossile Fische. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1834:379-390
Parent taxon: Saurichthyidae according to F. X. Wu et al. 2018
See also Beltan 1968, Beltan 1972, Beltan 1984, Bender and Hancox 2004, Bürgin et al. 1991, Cartanyà 1999, Chhabra and Mishra 2002, Gardiner 1960, Kogan and Romano 2016, Lehman 1952, Lehman et al. 1959, Liu and Wei 1988, Mishra et al. 1990, Mutter et al. 2008, Renesto and Stockar 2009, Rieppel 1985, Romano et al. 2016, Romano et al. 2016, Sahni and Chhabra 1976, Sepkoski 2002, Sytchevskaya 1999, Tintori 2013, Tintori et al. 2014, Tintori et al. 2016, Uyeno 1978 and Wu et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Saurorhynchus, Stenoprotome, Belonorhynchus
Subtaxa: Brevisaurichthys osseus Saurichthys (Costasaurichthys) Saurichthys (Eosaurichthys) chaoi Saurichthys (Eosaurichthys) madagascariensis Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) Saurichthys (Sinosaurichthys) longipectoralis Saurichthys aculeatus Saurichthys apicalis Saurichthys breviabdominalis Saurichthys calcaratus Saurichthys curionii Saurichthys daubreei Saurichthys dawaziensis Saurichthys deperditus Saurichthys dongusensis Saurichthys eximius Saurichthys gigas Saurichthys gracilis Saurichthys grignae Saurichthys gypsophilus Saurichthys hamiltoni Saurichthys huanshenensis Saurichthys indicus Saurichthys irregularis Saurichthys latifrons Saurichthys lepidosteoides Saurichthys longidens Saurichthys macrocephalus Saurichthys majiashanensis Saurichthys nepalensis Saurichthys obrutchevi Saurichthys orientalis Saurichthys parvidens Saurichthys piveteaui Saurichthys proximus Saurichthys sceltrichensis Saurichthys seefeldensis Saurichthys semicostatus Saurichthys spinosa Saurichthys stensioi Saurichthys striatulus Saurichthys striolatus Saurichthys subulatus Saurichthys tenuirostris Saurichthys tertius Saurichthys ultimus Saurichthys vjuschkovi Saurichthys wimani Saurichthys yangjuanensis Saurichthys yunnanensis Sinosaurichthys longimedialis Sinosaurichthys minuta Systolichthys catalaunicus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
• Triassic of Australia (4), Austria (4), Belgium (5), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), China (6), France (14), Germany (11), Greenland (3), Hungary (2), India (4), Israel (1), Italy (14), Kyrgyzstan (2), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (6), Nepal (1), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (3), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (12), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (15), Switzerland (40), Türkiye (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Arizona, Idaho, Nevada)
• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 185 collections including 233 occurrences
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