Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Synonym: Sicarius Leidy 1856
Parent taxon: Petalodontidae according to M. Ginter et al. 2010
See also Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Leidy 1873, Lund 1983, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Woodward 1889 and Zangerl 1981
Sister taxa: Antliodus, Chomatodus, Glossodus, Glyphanodus, Harpacodus, Itapyrodus, Lisgodus, Neopetalodus, Peltodus, Polyrhizodus, Strigilina, Tanaodus
Subtaxa: Petalodus acuminatus Petalodus allegheniensis Petalodus arcuatus Petalodus curtus Petalodus davisii Petalodus flabellula Petalodus grandis Petalodus hastingsiae Petalodus hybridus Petalodus jewetti Petalodus knappi Petalodus linguifer Petalodus ohioensis Petalodus proximus Petalodus sagittatus
Type: Petalodus hastingsii
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Japan (2 collections), United States (6: Kansas, New Mexico)
• Carboniferous of Greenland (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (23: Alabama, Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia)
Total: 49 collections including 56 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.