Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Etmopteridae
Synonym: Acanthidium Lowe 1839
Parent taxon: Etmopteridae according to N. Straube et al. 2015
See also Cahuzac et al. 2007, Compagno 1984, Jordan 1963, Sepkoski 2002 and Underwood and Schlogl 2013
Sister taxa: Aculeola, Centroscyllium, Eoetmopterus, Incognitorapax, Miroscyllium, Paraetmopterus, Proetmopterus, Trigonognathus
Subtaxa: Etmopterus acutidens Etmopterus cahuzaci Etmopterus spinax
Type: Etmopterus aculeatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (2 collections)
• Miocene of Austria (2), France (6), Germany (3), Japan (2), Slovakia (4)
• Eocene of Barbados (2), France (6), Ukraine (1)
Total: 28 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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