Pseudopholidoctenus germanicus is a named stem teleosteomorph established from the Rüdersdorf type material, including holotype MB.f.18641 and paratypes MB.f.19904–19906.
claim:taxon:pseudopholidoctenus-germanicus:taxonomyPseudopholidoctenus germanicus
A small lower Anisian stem teleosteomorph from the Rüdersdorf Muschelkalk, documented by a skull roof, an almost complete but incomplete-body specimen and two additional skull roofs.
Represented range244–244 Ma
Content packageactinopterygii
PBDBtxn:481455
Evidence boundary
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Claim ledger
The Pseudopholidoctenus germanicus material comes from the Rüdersdorf opencast mine in the Central European (Germanic) Basin, Germany; this locality does not establish a global distribution.
claim:taxon:pseudopholidoctenus-germanicus:biogeographyThe cited description records an aquatic fish from a marine restricted-basin setting, but it does not establish a species-specific diet, locomotor performance or trophic guild for Pseudopholidoctenus germanicus.
claim:taxon:pseudopholidoctenus-germanicus:ecologyPseudopholidoctenus germanicus has a fused, ornamented skull roof, large square-like scutes before the epaxial caudal lobe, fewer than 18 principal caudal rays and no hypaxial procurrent rays in the diagnosis.
claim:taxon:pseudopholidoctenus-germanicus:morphologyThe displayed approximately 244 Ma point bounds the lower Anisian Rüdersdorf sample of Pseudopholidoctenus germanicus and is not a global teleosteomorph or teleost first appearance.
claim:taxon:pseudopholidoctenus-germanicus:fossil-rangeKnown limits
- A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.
References
- The oldest teleosts (Teleosteomorpha): their early taxonomic, phenotypic, and ecological diversification during the TriassicArratia, G.; Schultze, H.-P. · 2024 · DOI 10.3897/fr.27.115970
- Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
- The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
- Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933