Alethodontus bavariensis Duffin 1983 (chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae

Full reference: C. J. Duffin. 1983. Holocephalans in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart 2. A myriacanthid tooth plate from the Hettangian (Lower Lias) of northern Bavaria. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 98:1-7

Belongs to Alethodontus according to C. J. Duffin 1983

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SMNS 51956, a tooth. Its type locality is Brook 600 m southeast of Krappenroth, which is in a Planorbis marine sandstone in Germany.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Brook 600 m southeast of Krappenroth

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