†Falcatus Lund 1985 (elasmobranch)
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Chondrichthyes - Symmoriiformes - Falcatidae
Full reference: R. Lund. 1985. The morphology of Falcatus falcatus (St. John and Worthen), a Mississippian stethacanthid chondrichthyan from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(1):1-19
Parent taxon: Falcatidae according to M. Ginter et al. 2010
See also Lund 1985 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Damocles, Denaea, Ozarcus
Subtaxa: Falcatus falcatus Falcatus hamatus Falcatus proclivus
Type: Physonemus falcatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (8: Montana collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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