Osteichthyes - Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae
Full reference: C. S. Churcher and G. De Iuliis. 2001. A new species of Protopterus and a revision of Ceratodus humei (Dipnoi: Ceratodontiformes) from the Late Cretaceous Mut Formation of eastern Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt. Palaeontology 44(2):305-323
Belongs to Protopterus according to C. S. Churcher and G. De Iuliis 2001
Sister taxa: Protopterus aethiopicus, Protopterus amphibius, Protopterus annectens, Protopterus dolloi, Protopterus libycus, Protopterus protopteroides, Protopterus regulatus
Type specimen: ROM 47635, a tooth. Its type locality is High Bluff, Two Red Hills, which is in a Campanian deltaic shale in the Quseir Formation of Egypt.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Egypt (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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