Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Ptychodontidae
Full reference: M. Canavari. 1916. Descrizione di un notevole esemplare di Ptychodus Agassiz trovato nel calcare bianco della Creta Superiore di Gallio nei Sette Comuni (Veneto). Palaeontographia Italica 22:35-102
Belongs to Ptychodus according to M. Amadori et al. 2023
See also Amadori et al. 2020 and Canavari 1916
Sister taxa: Buffonites, Ptychodus altior, Ptychodus anonymus, Ptychodus articulatus, Ptychodus atcoensis, Ptychodus belluccii, Ptychodus concentricus, Ptychodus decurrens, Ptychodus elevatus, Ptychodus latissimus, Ptychodus mahakalensis, Ptychodus mammillaris, Ptychodus marginalis, Ptychodus martini, Ptychodus mortoni, Ptychodus occidentalis, Ptychodus papillosus, Ptychodus parvulus, Ptychodus paucisulcatus, Ptychodus pauli, Ptychodus polygyrus, Ptychodus rhombodus, Ptychodus rugosus, Ptychodus schlotheimii, Ptychodus sulcatus, Ptychodus whipplei
Type specimen: MSNUP I-17373, a set of teeth. Its type locality is Eck, south of Gallio, which is in a Turonian basinal (carbonate) lime mudstone in the Scaglia Rossa Formation of Italy.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Italy (10 collections), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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