Edaphodon barberi Applegate 1970 (chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae

Full reference: S. P. Applegate. 1970. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes. Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3(8):385-433

Belongs to Edaphodon according to Applegate 1970

Sister taxa: Edaphodon agassizi, Edaphodon antwerpiensis, Edaphodon crassus, Edaphodon divaricatus, Edaphodon eocaenus, Edaphodon eurygnathus, Edaphodon fecundus, Edaphodon gaskillii, Edaphodon hesperis, Edaphodon incrassatus, Edaphodon kawai, Edaphodon laminosus, Edaphodon laterigerus, Edaphodon latidens, Edaphodon leptognathus, Edaphodon longirostris, Edaphodon miersii, Edaphodon mirabilis, Edaphodon mirificus, Edaphodon monolophus, Edaphodon reedi, Edaphodon sedgwicki, Edaphodon smockii, Edaphodon snowhillensis, Edaphodon solidulus, Edaphodon stenobryus, Edaphodon sweeti, Edaphodon tripartitus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Donald Farm, which is in a Santonian carbonate limestone in Alabama

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Donald Farm

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