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Pteronisculus gunnari

Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae

Taxonomy
Glaucolepis gunnari was named by Nielsen (1942). Its type specimen is 18, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kap Stosch area, Fish-zone III, which is in a Griesbachian marine limestone in Greenland.

It was recombined as Pteronisculus gunnari by Ren and Xu (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1942Glaucolepis gunnari Nielsen p. 97 figs. pl. 9 fig. 2, pl. 10 fig. 2, pl. 11
2021Pteronisculus gunnari Ren and Xu

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
orderPalaeonisciformesHay 1902
suborderPalaeoniscoidei
familyRhadinichthyidaeRomer 1945
genusPteronisculus
speciesgunnari()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Pteronisculus gunnari Nielsen 1942
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 21:35:42
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:35:42
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Griesbachian or 251.90200 to 250.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5Greenland Glaucolepis gunnari (type locality: 153365)