Osteichthyes - Teleostei - Tomognathidae

Full reference: F. Dixon. 1850. The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex xvi-422

Belongs to Tomognathus according to L. Cavin and S. Giner 2012

See also Dixon 1850, Forey and Patterson 2006, Woodward 1901 and Woodward 1888

Sister taxa: Tomognathus gigeri, Tomognathus leiodus

Type specimen: BM 007225, a skull. Its type locality is Clayton Chalk Pit (Chalk Marl), which is in a Cenomanian/Cenomanian carbonate chalk in the Beer Head Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Clayton Chalk Pit (Chalk Marl)

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