Lepidotes gigas Agassiz 1832 (gar)

Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes

Alternative combination: Lepidotus gigas

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1832. Untersuchungen über die fossilen Fische der Lias-Formation. Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 3:139-149

Belongs to Lepidotes according to A. López-Arbarello 2012

See also Agassiz 1832, Agassiz 1833, Agassiz 1834, Agassiz 1837, Wenz 1967 and Woodward 1916

Sister taxa: Lepidotes dashanpuensis, Lepidotes elvensis, Lepidotes gloriae, Lepidotes lennieri, Lepidotes macropterus, Lepidotes microrhis, Lepidotes pankowskii, Lepidotes semiserratus, Lepidotes tanyrhis, Lepidotes toombsi, Lepidotes walcotti, Lepidotes wenzae, Lepidotus affinis, Lepidotus fimbriatus, Lepidotus fittoni, Lepidotus frondosus, Lepidotus gallineki, Lepidotus latifrons, Lepidotus leedsi, Lepidotus lusitanicus, Lepidotus macrocheirus, Lepidotus maximiliani, Lepidotus minor, Lepidotus oblongus, Lepidotus occidentalis, Lepidotus palliatus, Lepidotus parvulus, Lepidotus piauhyensis, Lepidotus pustulatus, Lepidotus radiatus, Lepidotus rugosus, Lepidotus souzai, Lepidotus speciosus, Lepidotus striatus, Lepidotus subdenticulatus, Lepidotus subovatus, Lepidotus subundatus, Lepidotus tuberculatus, Lepidotus undatus, Lepidotus unguiculatus, Lepidotus virleti

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Lepidotes gigas in the database

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