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English: Lycoptera davidi (Sauvage, 1880) - fossil fish in shale from the Cretaceous of China.

The Jehol Group of Liaoning Province in China has produced numerous remarkable fossils, particularly feathered dinosaurs. Seen here is one of the most abundant fossil forms in the Jehol Group - this is a Lycoptera davidi fossil fish. It occurs in lacustrine (lake) shales of the Yixian Formation.

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii, Neopterygii, Teleostei, Osteoglossiformes, Notopteroidei, Lycopteridae

Stratigraphy: "Lycoptera Beds", Yixian Formation, Jehol Group, near-lowermost Cretaceous

Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed site (likely well south of Bei Piao), western Liaoning Province (Manchuria), northeastern China
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Author James St. John

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