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: Acrotemnus, Agoultpycnodus, Anomoeodus, Athrodon, Brauccipycnodus, Callodus, Coelodus, Costapycnodus, Flagellipinna, Gregoriopycnodus, Hadrodus, Haqelpycnodus, Iemanja, Macromesodon, Njoerdichthys, Nonaphalagodus, Nursalliinae, Ocloedus, Omphalodus, Polypsephis, Proscincetes, Proscinetinae, Pycnodontinae, Pycnomicrodon, Rhinopycnodus, Sphaerodus, Stemmatodus, Stenamara, Xenopholis
Subtaxa: Mesodon bucklandi 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 France (2), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 12 collections including 15 occurrences
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