Chondrichthyes - Ichthyodorulites
Synonym: Coelorhynchus Agassiz 1844 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Ichthyodorulites according to W. F. Rapp 1946
See also Arambourg and Joleaud 1943, Bohm 1926, Casier 1946, Casier 1958, Casier 1966, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024, Leriche 1942, Leriche 1910, Maisch et al. 2016, Schultz 1987, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Udovichenko and Nessov 1987, Weems 1999 and White 1926
Sister taxa: Cyrtacanthus, Gampsacanthus, Lecracanthus, Marracanthus, Phlyctaenacanthus
Subtaxa: Coelorhynchus libanicus Cylindracanthus acus Cylindracanthus bisulcatus Cylindracanthus gigas Cylindracanthus isnusris Cylindracanthus ornatus Cylindracanthus rectus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (2: Alabama, South Carolina collections)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Barbados (1), Belgium (5), Italy (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mali (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (4), Senegal (1), Togo (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (27: Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland , Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Western Sahara (3)
• Paleocene of Nigeria (1)
• Tertiary of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Lebanon (2), Niger (2), Spain (1), United States (9: Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)
Total: 77 collections including 85 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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