Paracentrophorus madagascariensis Piveteau 1941 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae

Full reference: J. Piveteau. 1941. XXIV--Nouvelles Recherces sur les Poissons du Trias Inferieur. Annales de Paleontologie XXIV:71-88

Belongs to Paracentrophorus according to J. Piveteau 1941

See also Gardiner 1960

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Paracentrophorus madagascariensis type locality, which is in a Dienerian marine shale in Madagascar.

Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Paracentrophorus madagascariensis type locality

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