Holophagus gulo Egerton 1861 (coelacanth)

Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae

Alternative combination: Undina gulo

Full reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1861. Holophagus gulo description, in Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangment of the fishes of the Devonian Epoch. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Decade X 23:19

Belongs to Holophagus according to P. G. Egerton 1868

See also Egerton 1861, Forey 1998, Gardiner 1960, Schultze 2004 and Woodward 1891

Sister taxon: Holophagus picenus

Type specimen: GSM 28832, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Lyme Regis (Harrison collection), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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