Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae
Full reference: C. J. Duffin and H. Furrer. 1981. Myriacanthid holocephalan remains from the Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) and Hettangian (Lower Jurassic) of Graubünden (Switzerland). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 74:803-829
Parent taxon: Myriacanthidae according to J. S. Nelson 2006
See also Duffin 1994 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthorhina, Alethodontus, Halonodon, Metopacanthus, Myriacanthus, Oblidens, Recurvacanthus
Subtaxa: Agkistracanthus mitgelensis
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (2 collections), Switzerland (1)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Switzerland (7), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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