Anomotodon Arambourg 1952 (goblin shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae

Alternative spelling: Anomatodon

Full reference: C. Arambourg. 1952. Les vertébrés fossiles des gisments de phosphates (Maroc- Algérie- Tunisie). Service Geologique du Maroc, Notes et Mémoires 92:1-372

Parent taxon: Mitsukurinidae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2022

See also Bice and Shimada 2016, Biddle 1993, Cappetta 1975, Case et al. 2015, Ebersole et al. 2019, Guinot et al. 2013, Herman 1979, Itoigawa 1977, Long 1992, Sepkoski 2002, Siverson 1992, Siversson and Machalski 2017 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999

Sister taxa: Mitsukurina, Rhinognathus, Scapanorhynchus, Striatolamia, Woellsteinia

Subtaxa: Anomotodon genaulti Anomotodon hermani Anomotodon multidenticulata Anomotodon plicatus Anomotodon principalis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (1: North Carolina collection)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Mississippi)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Austria (5), Bulgaria (1), France (9), Israel (3), Japan (4), Lebanon (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Sweden (6), Syria (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (2: Kansas, New Mexico)

Total: 69 collections including 70 occurrences

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