Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae

Alternative combinations: Glaucolepis stensioi, Pteronisculus stensioei

Full reference: E. Nielsen. 1942. Studies on Triassic fishes from East Greenland. 1. Glaucolepis and Boreosomus. Palaeozoologica Groenlandica 1:1-403

Belongs to Pteronisculus according to C. Shen and G. Arratia 2021

See also Carvalho et al. 2013, Friedman et al. 2010 and Nielsen 1942

Sister taxa: Pteronisculus aldingeri, Pteronisculus arambourgi, Pteronisculus arcticus, Pteronisculus broughi, Pteronisculus changae, Pteronisculus cicatrosus, Pteronisculus gunnari, Pteronisculus gyrolepidoides, Pteronisculus laetus, Pteronisculus macropterus, Pteronisculus magna, Pteronisculus meiringi, Pteronisculus nevadanus, Pteronisculus nielseni

Type specimen: 38, a partial skull. Its type locality is Kap Stosch area, Fish-zone V, which is in a Griesbachian marine limestone in Greenland.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kap Stosch area, Fish-zone V

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