Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae

Synonym: Soetendalichthys cromptoni Gardiner 1969

Full reference: B. G. Gardiner. 1969. New palaeoniscoid fish from the Witteberg series of South Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 48(4):423-452

Belongs to Aestuarichthys according to B. G. Gardiner 1969

See also Evans 2005

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

• Aestuarichthys fulcratus: South African Museum, Cape Town, a partial skeleton (rather poorly preserved fish wanting tail and pectoral fins). Its type locality is Soetendalsvlei, which is in a Tournaisian lacustrine - large mudstone/marl in the Waaiport Formation of South Africa.
• Soetendalichthys cromptoni: SAM, a partial skeleton (incomplete fish wanting tail and front of head). Its type locality is Soetendalsvlei, which is in a Tournaisian lacustrine - large mudstone/marl in the Waaiport Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

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