Osteichthyes - Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Alternative combination: Protopterus humei
Full reference: F. Priem. 1914. Sur des vertébrés du Crétacé et de l'Éocène d'Égypte. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 14:366-382
Belongs to Ceratodus according to C. S. Churcher and G. De Iuliis 2001
See also Arambourg and Joleaud 1943, Carrano 2025, Priem 1914, Schultze 2004, Tabaste 1963 and Werner 1993
Sister taxa: Ceratodus altus, Ceratodus americanus, Ceratodus arenaceus, Ceratodus argentinus, Ceratodus avus, Ceratodus bicornis, Ceratodus bovisrivi, Ceratodus brasiliensis, Ceratodus bucobaensis, Ceratodus capensis, Ceratodus carinatus, Ceratodus casieri, Ceratodus cloacinus, Ceratodus curvus, Ceratodus daedaleus, Ceratodus disauris, Ceratodus diutinus, Ceratodus elegans, Ceratodus emarginatus, Ceratodus facetidens, Ceratodus favosus, Ceratodus felchi, Ceratodus frazieri, Ceratodus gibbus, Ceratodus guentheri, Ceratodus guilielmi, Ceratodus gustasoni, Ceratodus heshanggouensis, Ceratodus heteromorphus, Ceratodus hislopianus, Ceratodus hunterianus, Ceratodus jechartiensis, Ceratodus kannemeyeri, Ceratodus kaupi, Ceratodus kaupii, Ceratodus kempae, Ceratodus kirklandi, Ceratodus kranzi, Ceratodus kurrii, Ceratodus latissimus, Ceratodus madagascariensis, Ceratodus madelungi, Ceratodus minor, Ceratodus minutus, Ceratodus molossus, Ceratodus nageshwarai, Ceratodus nargun, Ceratodus nirumbee, Ceratodus obtusus, Ceratodus orenburgensis, Ceratodus palaeoruncinatus, Ceratodus palmatus, Ceratodus parvus, Ceratodus paucicristatus, Ceratodus pectinatus, Ceratodus phillipsi, Ceratodus planasper, Ceratodus planus, Ceratodus priscus, Ceratodus protopteroides, Ceratodus rectangularis, Ceratodus recticristatus, Ceratodus robustus, Ceratodus runcinatus, Ceratodus shenmuensis, Ceratodus silesiacus, Ceratodus stewarti, Ceratodus sturii, Ceratodus trapezoides, Ceratodus tuberculatus, Ceratodus tunuensis, Ceratodus vinslovii, Ceratodus weissmanni, Ceratodus wollastoni, Ceratodus youngi, Ceratodus yuanjianhensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Quft, which is in a Campanian marine phosphorite in Egypt
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Saudi Arabia (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Brazil (1), Egypt (3), Mali (2), Niger (4), Sudan (2)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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