Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Full reference: S. P. Applegate. 1975. A new species of Paleocene chimaeroid from California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 74(1):27-30
Belongs to Ischyodus according to S. P. Applegate 1975
Sister taxa: Ischyodus avitus, Ischyodus beaumonti, Ischyodus bifurcatus, Ischyodus bohemicus, Ischyodus dufrenoyi, Ischyodus egertoni, Ischyodus emarginatus, Ischyodus incisus, Ischyodus latus, Ischyodus mortoni, Ischyodus panus, Ischyodus quenstedti, Ischyodus rayhaasi, Ischyodus thurmanni, Ischyodus townsendi, Ischyodus yanschini
Type specimen: LACM 37206, a mandible. Its type locality is LACM loc. 3216, which is in a Paleocene marine limestone in California.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at LACM loc. 3216
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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