Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Full reference: G. R. Case. 1978. Ischyodus bifurcatus, a new species of chimaeroid fish from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey. Geobios 11:21-29
Belongs to Ischyodus according to L. Nelson et al. 2025
See also Boles et al. 2024, Case 1978, Case 1979, Case and Schwimmer 1992, Cicimurri and Ebersole 2014, Ebersole et al. 2022 and Johnson-Ransom et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Ischyodus avitus, Ischyodus beaumonti, Ischyodus bohemicus, Ischyodus crassus, Ischyodus dolloi, Ischyodus dufrenoyi, Ischyodus egertoni, Ischyodus emarginatus, Ischyodus incisus, Ischyodus latus, Ischyodus mortoni, Ischyodus panus, Ischyodus quenstedti, Ischyodus rayhaasi, Ischyodus thurmanni, Ischyodus townsendi, Ischyodus yanschini, Ischyodus zinsmeisteri
Type specimen: UM 334, a tooth. Its type locality is Hop Brook (HBR), which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian coastal sandstone in the Navesink Formation of New Jersey.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey collection)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (15: California, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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