Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Parent taxon: Chimaeroidea according to S. Gouiric-Cavalli et al. 2015
See also Applegate 1970, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Leidy 1873, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Underwood and Cumbaa 2010
Sister taxon: Chimaerotheca
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Australia (1 collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Belgium (1)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (2: Georgia, New Jersey)
• Paleocene of France (1), United States (6: Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Canada (2: British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), France (1), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi, New Jersey)
Total: 43 collections including 50 occurrences