†Boreosomus piveteaui Nielsen 1942 (ray-finned fish)
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Osteichthyes - Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Full reference: E. Nielsen. 1942. Studies on Triassic fishes from East Greenland. 1. Glaucolepis and Boreosomus. Palaeozoologica Groenlandica 1:1-403
Belongs to Boreosomus according to C. Shen and G. Arratia 2021
See also Nielsen 1942 and Poplin and Lund 1995
Sister taxa: Boreosomus arcticus, Boreosomus gillioti, Boreosomus merlei, Boreosomus reuterskioldi, Boreosomus scaber
Type specimen: 201, a skeleton. Its type locality is Kap Stosch area, Fish-zone II, which is in a Griesbachian marine limestone in Greenland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Greenland (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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