Ptilichnus Hitchcock 1858 (bony fish)

Osteichthyes

Full reference: E. Hitchcock. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts xii-214

Parent taxon: Pisces according to E. Hitchcock 1858

Sister taxa: Actinopterygii, Actinopterygii, Andreolepis, Cephaloxeniformes, Coregonidae, Crenilepis, Cyclotomodon, Dialipiniformes, Discordichthyiformes, Ganoidei, Iniomi, Lophosteus, Naxilepis, Pattonia, Pattonia couttsi, Preophiodon, Sarcopterygii, Tythonichthys, Chrondroterygia, Otolithopsis, Charitosaurus, Rhytiodus, Lepidoleprus, Hypostomata, Teleostomata, Malacostomata, Azygostei, Argentinoideorum, Percidarum, Aspidoganoidei, Dipneusta

Subtaxa: Ptilichnus anomalus Ptilichnus hydrodromus Ptilichnus pectinatus Ptilichnus typographus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lily Pond Quarry, Gill (Jurassic of Massachusetts)

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