Chondrichthyes - Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta, K. Morrison, and S. Adnet. 2019. A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages. Historical Biology 33:1121-1182
Parent taxon: Hexanchidae according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
See also dos Santos et al. 2024
Sister taxa: Eonotidanus, Gladioserratus, Hexanchus, Monopterhinus, Notidanion, Notidanodon, Notidanus, Notorhynchus, Notorynchus, Protoheptranchias
Subtaxa: Xampylodon brotzeni Xampylodon dentatus Xampylodon diastemacron Xampylodon loozi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Belgium (3 collections), Denmark (2), Sweden (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), United States (2: California, South Dakota)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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