Xampylodon Cappetta et al. 2019 (cow shark)

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

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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

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