Delphyodontos dacriformes Lund 1980 (chimaera)

Chondrichthyes

Full reference: R. Lund. 1980. Viviparity and intrauterine feeding in a new Holocephalan fish from the Lower Carboniferous of Montana. Science 209:697-699

Belongs to Delphyodontos according to R. Lund 1980

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UM 6148, a skeleton. Its type locality is MV 7106, Supercrop Quarry, Bear Gulch, which is in an Arnsbergian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at MV 7106, Supercrop Quarry, Bear Gulch

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