Osteichthyes - Halecomorphi - Ophiopsiidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 243730

Belongs to Ophiopsis according to A. S. Woodward 1895

Sister taxa: Ophiopsis aequalis, Ophiopsis attenuata, Ophiopsis bellottii, Ophiopsis breviceps, Ophiopsis flesheri, Ophiopsis guigardi, Ophiopsis penicillata, Ophiopsis procera, Ophiopsis tenuiserrata

Type specimen: BMNH P.466, a skeleton. Its type locality is Swanage (BMNH fish coll.), which is in a Berriasian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

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