Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Full reference: P. Egerton. 1854. On some new genera and species of fossil fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 13:433-436
Belongs to Pholidophorus according to A. S. Woodward 1919
Sister taxa: Pholidophorus angustus, Pholidophorus australis, Pholidophorus barazzettii, Pholidophorus brevis, Pholidophorus browni, Pholidophorus curionii, Pholidophorus dubius, Pholidophorus furcatus, Pholidophorus gaudryi, Pholidophorus germanicus, Pholidophorus gracilis, Pholidophorus gregarius, Pholidophorus hartmanni, Pholidophorus higginsi, Pholidophorus intermedius, Pholidophorus latimanus, Pholidophorus latiusculus, Pholidophorus latus, Pholidophorus longiserratus, Pholidophorus macrocephalus, Pholidophorus maximus, Pholidophorus microlepidotus, Pholidophorus micronyx, Pholidophorus microps, Pholidophorus minor, Pholidophorus nitidus, Pholidophorus onychius, Pholidophorus ornatus, Pholidophorus pachysomus, Pholidophorus purbeckensis, Pholidophorus pusillus, Pholidophorus radians, Pholidophorus radiatopunctatus, Pholidophorus spaethi, Pholidophorus stricklandi, Pholidophorus striolaris, Pholidophorus taxis, Pholidophorus uraeoides
Type specimen: DCM, a partial skeleton
Ecology: suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Swanage (general) (BMNH) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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