Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Alternative combination: Ischyodus smockii
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. Description of some extinct fishes previously unknown. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 12:310-317
Belongs to Edaphodon according to H. W. Fowler 1911
See also Cope 1869 and Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Edaphodon agassizi, Edaphodon antwerpiensis, Edaphodon barberi, Edaphodon crassus, Edaphodon divaricatus, Edaphodon eocaenus, Edaphodon eurygnathus, Edaphodon fecundus, Edaphodon hesperis, Edaphodon incrassatus, Edaphodon kawai, Edaphodon laminosus, Edaphodon laterigerus, Edaphodon latidens, Edaphodon leptognathus, Edaphodon mantellii, Edaphodon miersii, Edaphodon mirabilis, Edaphodon mirificus, Edaphodon reedi, Edaphodon sedgwicki, Edaphodon snowhillensis, Edaphodon solidulus, Edaphodon stenobryus, Edaphodon sweeti, Edaphodon tripartitus
Type specimen: AMNH 7192, a mandible. Its type locality is Hornerstown area (Hornerstown Fm., AMNH collection), which is in a Maastrichtian marginal marine marl in the Hornerstown Formation of New Jersey.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Hornerstown area (Hornerstown Fm., AMNH collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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