Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Alternative spelling: Hybodus (Polyacrodus)
Full reference: O. Jaekel. 1889. Die Selachier aus dem oberen Muschelkalk lothringens. Abhandlungen zur Geologischen Specialkarte von Elsass-Lothringen, Band 3 4:273-332
Parent taxon: Polyacrodontidae according to J. K. Juranek and K. Shimada 2025
See also Biddle 1993, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Chhabra and Mishra 2002, Cicimurri 2003, Dalinkevičius 1935, Delsate et al. 2002, Duffin 1998, Everhart 2004, Ginter et al. 2010, Johns 1997, Jordan 1963, Maisey 1987, Sepkoski 2002, Siversson and Machalski 2017, Skinner et al. 2020, Underwood and Rees 2002 and Yamagishi 2004
Sister taxa: Diplolonchidion, Roongodus
Subtaxa: Polyacrodus brevicostatus Polyacrodus claveringensis Polyacrodus cloacinus Polyacrodus heterodon Polyacrodus illingworthi Polyacrodus jiangxiensis Polyacrodus krafti Polyacrodus lapalomensis Polyacrodus maiseyi Polyacrodus minimus Polyacrodus parvidens Polyacrodus polycyphus Polyacrodus pyramidalis Polyacrodus ritchiei Polyacrodus tiandongensis Polyacrodus tregoi Polyacrodus tuberculatus Polyacrodus wichitaensis Polyacrodus zideki
Type: Hybodus polycyphus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), Canada (1: Alberta), Denmark (1), France (6), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (7), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (20), United States (12: Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France (2), Morocco (1)
• Jurassic of Belgium (1), China (2), France (6), India (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Belgium (5), China (1), France (9), Germany (8), Greenland (1), India (1), Japan (6), Luxembourg (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (10), United States (2: Nevada, Texas)
• Permian of China (1), Iran (2), the Russian Federation (5), United States (10: Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 147 collections including 174 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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