†family Edaphodontidae Owen 1846 (chimaera)

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

Subtaxa: Edaphodon Eumylodus

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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

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