Moorevillia Applegate 1970 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Tselfatiiformes - Plethodidae

Full reference: S. P. Applegate. 1970. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes. Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3(8):385-433

Parent taxon: Bananogmiidae according to J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones 1981

See also Applegate 1970 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Bananogmius, Dixonanogmius, Niobrara, Paranogmius, Pentanogmius, Plethodus, Rhamphoichthys, Tselfatia, Zanclites

Subtaxa: Moorevillia hardi

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Type: Moorevillia hardi

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at G. S. Moore Farm (Cretaceous of Alabama)

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