Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae
Synonym: Acanthorhinidae Patterson 1965
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1889. On the Myriacanthidae - an extinct family of chimaeroid fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 4:275-280
Parent taxon: Myriacanthoidei according to C. J. Duffin and J. Milàn 2017
See also Duffin 1981, Duffin 1983, Duffin 1984, Duffin 1991, Duffin 1994, Duffin and Delsate 1993, Duffin and Furrer 1981, Jordan 1963, Nelson 2006 and Woodward 1891
Sister taxon: Chimaeropsidae
Subtaxa: Acanthorhina Agkistracanthus Alethodontus Halonodon Metopacanthus Myriacanthus Oblidens Recurvacanthus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (2 collections), Belgium (7), 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: 32 collections including 40 occurrences