Scutatoclupea applegatei Alvarado-Ortega and Ovalles-Damián 2008

Actinopteri - Ellimmichthyiformes - Paraclupeidae

Alternative combination: Triplomystus applegatei

Full reference: J. Alvarado-Ortega and E. Ovalles-Damián. 2008. Triplomystus applegatei, sp. nov. (Teleostei: Ellimmichthyiformes), a rare "triple armored herring" from El Espinal Quarry (Early Cretaceous), Chiapas, southeastern Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1):53-60

Belongs to Scutatoclupea according to A. F. Bannikov 2015

See also Alvarado-Ortega and Ovalles-Damián 2008

Sister taxon: Scutatoclupea bacchiai

Type specimen: INAH 1941, a skeleton (nearly complete articulated skeleton missing distal parts of the limbs). Its type locality is El Espinal Quarry, which is in an Aptian paralic claystone/limestone in the Sierra Madre Formation of Mexico.

Distribution: found only at El Espinal Quarry

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