†suborder Myriacanthoidei Patterson 1965 (chimaera)
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes
Parent taxon: Chimaeriformes according to C. J. Duffin and J. Milàn 2017
See also Duffin 1981, Duffin 1984, Duffin 1991, Duffin 1994, Duffin and Furrer 1981, Nelson 2006 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Arctacanthus, Callorhynchidae, Chimaeridae, Chimaeroidei, Chimeroidei, Crassidonta, Echinochimaeroidei, Icthypriapus, Myracanthiodei, Squalorajoidei
Subtaxa: Chimaeropsidae Myriacanthidae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (2 collections), Belgium (8), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (2), Italy (1), Luxembourg (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (5)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Switzerland (7), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 33 collections including 41 occurrences