Osteichthyes - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Synonym: Microdon Agassiz 1833 [replaced name]
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1899. On some changes in the names, generic and specific, of certain fossil fishes. The American Naturalist 33:783-792
Parent taxon: Pycnodontidae according to O. P. Hay 1899
See also Cope 1878 and Woodward 1895
Sister taxa: Acrotemnus, Agoultpycnodus, Anomoeodus, Athrodon, Brauccipycnodus, Callodus, Coelodus, Costapycnodus, Flagellipinna, Gregoriopycnodus, Hadrodus, Haqelpycnodus, Iemanja, Macromesodon, Njoerdichthys, Nonaphalagodus, Nursalliinae, Ocloedus, Omphalodus, Proscincetes, Proscinetinae, Pycnodontinae, Pycnomicrodon, Rhinopycnodus, Stemmatodus, Stenamara, Typodus, Xenopholis
Subtaxa: Microdon abdominalis Microdon analis Microdon biserialis Microdon discoides Microdon penalvai
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of France (2), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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