Ptyktoptychion wadeae Bartholomai 2008 (plownose chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae

Full reference: A. Bartholomai. 2008. Lower Cretaceous chimaeroids (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) from the Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52:49-56

Belongs to Ptyktoptychion according to A. Bartholomai 2008

Sister taxon: Ptyktoptychion tayyo

Type specimen: QMF52601, a tooth (right palatine plate). Its type locality is Boree Park near Richmond, which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in the Toolebuc Formation of Australia.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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