Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Alternative combination: Rhombodus levis
Full reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1975. Contribution a l'étude des sélaciens du Groupe Monmouth (Campanien-Maestrichtian) du New Jersey. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 151:1-46
Belongs to Rhombodus according to G. R. Case et al. 2019
See also Cappetta 1987, Cappetta and Case 1975, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Hoganson et al. 2019, Kriwet et al. 2007 and Schubert et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Rhombodus andriesi, Rhombodus binkhorsti, Rhombodus carentonensis, Rhombodus ibericus, Rhombodus meridionalis, Rhombodus microdon
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey collection)
• Cretaceous of India (1), United States (22: Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence
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