Meristodonoides Underwood and Cumbaa 2010 (cartilaginous fish)

Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae

Full reference: C. J. Underwood and S. L. Cumbaa. 2010. Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontology 53:903-944

Parent taxon: Hybodontinae according to J. K. Juranek and K. Shimada 2025

See also Bice and Shimada 2016, Bourdon et al. 2011, Cicimurri et al. 2014, Guinot et al. 2013, Maisch et al. 2021 and Underwood and Cumbaa 2010

Sister taxa: Crassodus, Heteroptychodus, Hybodus, Planohybodus

Subtaxa: Meristodonoides butleri Meristodonoides montanensis Meristodonoides novojerseyensis Meristodonoides rajkovichi

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (20: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan collections), France (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (45: Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 68 collections including 70 occurrences

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