Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Synonym: Mesodon Wagner 1851 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Pycnodontidae according to A. S. Woodward 1895
See also Cope 1878, Hay 1899, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963 and Woodward 1916
Sister taxa: Abdobalistum, Acrotemnus, Agoultpycnodus, Anomoeodus, Athrodon, Brauccipycnodus, Callodus, Coccodus, Coelodus, Costapycnodus, Flagellipinna, Gregoriopycnodus, Hadrodus, Haqelpycnodus, Iemanja, Macromesodon, Neoproscinetes, Njoerdichthys, Nonaphalagodus, Nursalliinae, Omphalodus, Polypsephis, Proscincetes, Proscinetes, Pycnodontinae, Pycnodus, Pycnomicrodon, Rhinopycnodus, Sphaerodus, Stemmatodus, Xenopholis
Subtaxa: Mesodon bucklandi Mesodon liassicus Mesodon limai Mesodon rugulosus Mesodon sharpei Mesodon tenuidens Typodus abrasus Typodus annulatus Typodus diastemicus Typodus dumblei Typodus valens
Type: Typodus annulatus
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida, Texas collections)
• Eocene of United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic of Belgium (1), France (2), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 16 collections including 19 occurrences
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