Chondrichthyes - Debeeriiformes - Debeeriidae
Full reference: E. D. Grogan and R. Lund. 2000. Debeerius ellefseni (Fam Nov, Gen Nov, Spec Nov), an autodiastylic chondrichthyan from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana (USA), the relationships of the Chondrichthyes, and comments on gnathostome evolution. Journal of Morphology 243:219-245
Belongs to Debeerius according to E. D. Grogan and R. Lund 2000
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: ROM 43173, a skeleton. Its type locality is Bear Gulch (Carnegie Museum Collection), which is in an Arnsbergian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Montana collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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