Oplegnathus manni Chapman and Cudmore 1924 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Oplegnathidae

Full reference: F. Chapman and F. A. Cudmore. 1924. New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group. Royal Society of Victoria 36(2):107-162

Belongs to Oplegnathus according to F. Chapman and F. A. Cudmore 1924

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Grange Burn, which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Port Campbell Limestone Formation of Australia

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Grange Burn

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