Chondrichthyes - Bransonelliformes
Alternative combination: Xenacanthus luedersensis
Full reference: D. S. Berman. 1970. Vertebrate Fossils from the Lueders Formation, Lower Permian of North-Central Texas. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 86:1-61
Belongs to Barbclabornia according to O. Hampe and A. Ivanov 2007
See also Berman 1970 and Johnson 2003
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UCLA VP 1961, a tooth. Its type locality is Lueders Fm. Locality 1, which is in an Artinskian/Kungurian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal grainstone/mudstone in the Lueders Formation of Texas.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (61: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia collections)
• Carboniferous of United States (5: Nebraska, Pennsylvania)
Total: 66 collections including 69 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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