Ohmdenia multidentata Hauff 1953 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae

Belongs to Ohmdenia according to M. Friedman 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GPIT 1017/1, a partial skeleton (Disrupted skeleton missing portions of the anal and dorsal fins, skull roof and braincase. The left mandible was found approximately 1.5 m from the skeleton and). Its type locality is Ohmden, GPIT specimen, epsilon III, which is in a Toarcian marine shale in the Posidonia Shale Formation of Germany.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ohmden, GPIT specimen, epsilon III

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