Chondrichthyes - Sclerorhynchiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1999. Additions aux faunes de sélaciens du Crétacé du Texas (Albien supérieur-Campanien). Palaeo Ichthyologica 9:5-111
Parent taxon: Ptychotrygonidae according to H. M. Maisch et al. 2021
See also Bourdon et al. 2011, Cappetta and Case 1999 and Cicimurri et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Asflapristis, Ptychotrygon, Ptychotrygonoides
Subtaxa: Texatrygon avonicola Texatrygon benningensis Texatrygon copei Texatrygon hooveri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (1: Montana collection)
• Cretaceous of United States (56: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 57 collections including 61 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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