Gyrodus Agassiz 1833 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Gyrodontidae

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome II (1re livraison) 1-48

Parent taxon: Gyrodontidae according to K. M. Cantalice et al. 2019

See also Arambourg and Joleaud 1943, Arratia 2015, Cope 1878, Gardiner 1960, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodward 1895

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Gyrodus analis Gyrodus angustus Gyrodus circularis Gyrodus conicus Gyrodus cordillera Gyrodus cretaceus Gyrodus cuvieri Gyrodus frontatus Gyrodus jurassicus Gyrodus laevior Gyrodus macropterus Gyrodus macropththalmus Gyrodus mammillaris Gyrodus mantellii Gyrodus milium Gyrodus minor Gyrodus muensteri Gyrodus perlatus Gyrodus platurus Gyrodus punctatissimus Gyrodus punctatus Gyrodus radiatus Gyrodus rhomboidalis Gyrodus rugosus Gyrodus rugulosus Gyrodus runcinatus Gyrodus trigonus Gyrodus umbilicus

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Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Saskatchewan collection), Chile (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of Chile (3), France (2), Germany (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of France (1)

Total: 17 collections including 18 occurrences

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