Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Alternative combination: Rhombodus laevis
Full reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1975. Contribution a l'étude des sélaciens du Groupe Monmouth (Campanien-Maestrichtian) du New Jersey. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 151:1-46
Belongs to Rhombodus according to J. W. Hoganson et al. 2019
See also Cappetta 1987, Cappetta and Case 1975, Case and Schwimmer 1988 and Kriwet et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Rhombodus andriesi, Rhombodus binkhorsti, Rhombodus carentonensis, Rhombodus ibericus, Rhombodus meridionalis, Rhombodus microdon
Type specimen: Its type locality is Willow Brook (WBR), which is in a Maastrichtian coastal sandstone in the Navesink Formation of New Jersey
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey collection)
• Cretaceous of India (1), United States (20: Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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