Actinopteri - Semionotiformes

Synonym: Semionotus kanabensis Schaeffer and Dunkle 1950 [objective synonym]

Full reference: S. Z. Gibson. 2013. Biodiversity and Evolutionary History of †Lophionotus (Neopterygii: †Semionotiformes) from the Western United States. Copeia 2013(4):582-603

Belongs to Lophionotus according to S. Z. Gibson 2013

See also Schaeffer and Dunkle 1950

Sister taxa: Lophionotus chinleana, Lophionotus sanjuanensis

Type specimens:

• Lophionotus kanabensis: AMNH 8870, a skeleton
• Semionotus kanabensis: A.M.N.H. No. 8870, a skeleton (complete fish with uncrushed skull). Its type locality is Kanab Canyon, which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Chinle Formation of Utah.

Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kanab Canyon (Triassic of Utah)

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