Chondrichthyes - Hexanchiformes - Chlamydoselachidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta, K. Morrison, and S. Adnet. 2019. A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages. Historical Biology 33:1121-1182
Belongs to Rolfodon according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Rolfodon bracheri, Rolfodon goliath, Rolfodon keyesi, Rolfodon landinii, Rolfodon tatere, Rolfodon thomsoni
Type specimen: RBCM P1156, a tooth. Its type locality is SHU-COL, Collishaw site, Hornby Island, which is in a Campanian submarine fan shale in the Northumberland Formation of Canada.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.