Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Pseudodalatiidae
Alternative combination: Dalatias barnstonensis
Full reference: J. H. Sykes. 1971. A new Dalatiid fish from the Rhaetic bone bed. Mercian Geologist 4(1):13-22
Belongs to Pseudodalatias according to H. J. Diependaal and J. W. F. Reumer 2021
See also Duffin and Delsate 1993, Reif 1978, Sykes 1974 and Tintori 1980
Sister taxon: Pseudodalatias henarejensis
Type specimen: BMNH P51407, a tooth. Its type locality is Barnstone railway cutting, which is in a Rhaetian coastal siliciclastic in the Westbury Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution:
• Triassic of Belgium (4 collections), France (4), Italy (7), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (8)
Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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