Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Xiphodolamiidae
Full reference: J. Leidy. 1877. Description of vertebrate remains, chiefly from the phosphate beds of South Carolina. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:209-260
Parent taxon: Xiphodolamiinae according to J. Herman 1977
See also Adnet et al. 2009, Cicimurri and Ebersole 2021, Glikman 1964, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Rapp 1946 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Xiphodolamia barbadica Xiphodolamia ensis Xiphodolamia morricei Xiphodolamia serrata
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection), Japan (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Barbados (1), Belgium (3), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Jordan (2), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Louisiana, New Jersey), Western Sahara (2)
Total: 21 collections including 22 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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