Edestus newtoni Woodward 1916 (chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Eugeneodontiformes - Edestidae

Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1916. On a new species of Edestus from the Upper Carboniferous of Yorkshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 72(1):1-6

Belongs to Edestus according to A. S. Woodward 1916

Sister taxa: Edestus crenulatus, Edestus giganteus, Edestus heinrichi, Edestus karpinskii, Edestus minisculus, Edestus minor, Edestus minusculus, Edestus mirus, Edestus serratus, Edestus triserratus, Edestus vorax

Type specimen: Its type locality is Brockholes, near Huddersfield, which is in a Bashkirian marine sandstone in the United Kingdom

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Brockholes, near Huddersfield

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