Ischyodus yanschini Averianov 1991 (plownose chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae

Full reference: A. O. Averianov. 1991. Novyi vid khimer roda Ischyodus iz kampana zapadnogo Kazakhstana. Izvestiya AN Kazakhskoi SSR, Seriya Geologicheskaya 1:32-34

Belongs to Ischyodus according to P. L. Jambura et al. 2024

See also Averianov 1991

Sister taxa: Ischyodus avitus, Ischyodus beaumonti, Ischyodus bifurcatus, 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 zinsmeisteri

Type specimen: TsNIGR 1/12754, a tooth. Its type locality is Pit 154, bed 4, Ilek-Temir river basins, which is in a Campanian marine siltstone in the Zhurun Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Kazakhstan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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