Lissodus Brough 1935 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes

Parent taxon: Hybodontoidea according to S. Stumpf and J. Kriwet 2019

See also Biddle 1993, Bryant 1989, Cappetta and Case 1999, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Cuny et al. 2004, Delsate 2003, Delsate et al. 2002, Duncan 2004, Ginter et al. 2010, Heckert and Lucas 2006, Ivanov and Lebedev 2014, Maisey 1987, Murry 1989, Rees and Underwood 2002, Rees and Underwood 2008, Sepkoski 2002, Underwood and Rees 2002 and Werner 1989

Sister taxa: Acrodontidae, Acrorhizodus, Asteracanthus semiverrucosus, Asteracanthus verrucosus, Diablodontus, Distobatidae, Homalodontidae, Hybodontidae, Hybodus strictus, Lamarodus, Lonchidiidae, Polyacrodontidae, Trichorhipis, Tristychiidae

Subtaxa: Lissodus africanus Lissodus angulatus Lissodus bartheli Lissodus cassangensis Lissodus cristatus Lissodus guenneguesi Lissodus hasleensis Lissodus johnsonorum Lissodus leiodus Lissodus leiopleurus Lissodus lepagei Lissodus levis Lissodus minimus Lissodus wardi Lissodus xiushuiensis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Egypt (4 collections), Germany (1), Morocco (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Thailand (1)

• Jurassic of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (1), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: Utah)

• Triassic of Angola (1), Belgium (5), France (18), Germany (7), Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (1), Luxembourg (2), the Netherlands (2), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (7), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (3), Spain (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (16), United States (5: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia)

• Permian of China (2), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (1: Kansas)

• Carboniferous of Ireland (2), the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 129 collections including 141 occurrences

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