Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae

Full reference: C. J. Duffin. 1983. Holocephalans in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart 2. A myriacanthid tooth plate from the Hettangian (Lower Lias) of northern Bavaria. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 98:1-7

Parent taxon: Myriacanthidae according to C. J. Duffin 1983

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanthorhina, Agkistracanthus, Halonodon, Metopacanthus, Myriacanthus, Oblidens, Recurvacanthus

Subtaxa: Alethodontus bavariensis

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Type: Alethodontus bavariensis

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Brook 600 m southeast of Krappenroth (Jurassic of Germany)

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