Similihariotta dabasinskasi Zangerl 1979 (chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Chimaeridae

Full reference: R. Zangerl. 1979. New Chondrichthyes from the Mazon Creek fauna (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois. Mazon Creek Fossils 449-500

Belongs to Similihariotta according to R. Zangerl 1979

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FMNH PF8547, a skeleton. Its type locality is Braidwood, Mazon Creek (USNM coll), which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Area 3, Pit 11, Peabody Coal Company

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