Homonotichthys pulchellus Dixon 1850

Actinopteri - Polymixiiformes - Polymixiidae

Alternative combinations: Berycopsis pulchella, Stenostoma pulchella

Full reference: F. Dixon. 1850. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex xvi-422

Belongs to Homonotichthys according to C. Patterson 1964

See also Dixon 1850 and Woodward 1902

Sister taxa: Homonotichthys dorsalis, Homonotichthys rotundus, Homonotus pulcher

Distribution: found only at Steyning chalk-pit (zone of Holaster subglobosus) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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