Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pleuropholidae
Alternative combination: Pleuropholis crassicaudus
Full reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1858. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British organic remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Decade IX, Supplement 2 Pl 1-Pl 10
Belongs to Pleuropholis according to A. S. Woodward 1919
Sister taxa: Pleuropholis attenuata, Pleuropholis attenuatus, Pleuropholis cinerosorum, Pleuropholis danielae, Pleuropholis decastroii, Pleuropholis formosa, Pleuropholis longicaudus, Pleuropholis serrata
Type specimen: BMNH, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Durdlestone Bay, Austin's bed 106, which is in a Berriasian lagoonal mudstone in the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Durdlestone Bay, Austin's bed 106
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