Chondrichthyes - Eugeneodontiformes - Edestidae
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1912. On an important specimen of Edestus; with description of a new species, Edestus mirus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 42(1912):31-38
Belongs to Edestus according to O. P. Hay 1912
Sister taxa: Edestus crenulatus, Edestus giganteus, Edestus heinrichi, Edestus karpinskii, Edestus minisculus, Edestus minor, Edestus minusculus, Edestus newtoni, Edestus serratus, Edestus triserratus, Edestus vorax
Type specimen: USNM 7255, a set of teeth. Its type locality is above Tyson Coal, Lehigh, Webster County, which is in a Moscovian marine shale in Iowa.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at above Tyson Coal, Lehigh, Webster County
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