†Cionichthys greeni Schaeffer 1967 (ray-finned fish)
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Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Full reference: B. Schaeffer. 1967. Late Triassic fishes from the western United States. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(6):285-342
Belongs to Cionichthys according to B. Schaeffer 1967
See also Murry 1986
Sister taxon: Cionichthys dunklei
Type specimen: AMNH 5600, a skull. Its type locality is Schaeffer Fish Quarry, Otis Chalk, which is in a Carnian/Norian fluvial-lacustrine siltstone in the Colorado City Formation of Texas.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Schaeffer Fish Quarry, Otis Chalk
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