Siksika ottae Lund 1989 (chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Pristodontidae

Full reference: R. Lund. 1989. New petalodonts (Chondrichthyes) from the Upper Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone (Namurian E₂b) of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(3):350-368

Belongs to Siksika according to R. Lund 1989

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MV 6199, a partial skull (braincase with eye pigments and teeth). Its type locality is MV 7106, Supercrop Quarry, Bear Gulch, which is in an Arnsbergian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at MV 7106, Supercrop Quarry, Bear Gulch

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