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Ischyodus egertoni

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae

Taxonomy
Chimaera egertoni was named by Buckland (1835).

It was recombined as Ischyodon egertoni by Agassiz (1843); it was recombined as Chimaera (Ischyodon) egertoni by Agassiz (1843); it was recombined as Ischyodus egertoni by Woodward (1891), Kriwet and Klug (2011).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
I. dolloi, I. williamsae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Chimaera egertoni Buckland
1843Ischyodon egertoni Agassiz figs. Pl S, figs 6,7
1843Chimaera (Ischyodon) egertoni Agassiz p. 340 figs. Pl 40c, figs 1-10
1891Ischyodus egertoni Woodward p. 61
2011Ischyodus egertoni Kriwet and Klug p. 956 figs. 3-5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classChondrichthyes
subclassHolocephali(Bonaparte 1832)
superorderHolocephalomorphaLund 1986
orderChimaeriformesObruchev 1953
familyCallorhynchidae(Garman 1901)
genusIschyodusEgerton 1843
speciesegertoni(Buckland 1835)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Ischyodus egertoni Buckland 1835
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektobenthico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-21 06:54:26
Modified: 2009-07-21 08:54:26
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Bathonian to the top of the Early/Lower Kimmeridgian or 168.20000 to 152.21000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Russian Federation (Moskva) Ischyodus egertoni (52961)
Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8United Kingdom (England) Ischyodus egertoni (100669)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian154.8 - 152.21Spain Ischyodus egertoni (117865 117866)