Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Alternative combination: Acrodus creodontus
Full reference: E. M. Wemple. 1906. New Cestraciont teeth from the west-American Triassic. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 5(4):71-73
Belongs to Acrodus according to O. Rieppel et al. 1996
See also Jordan and Hanibal 1923
Sister taxa: Acrodus acutus, Acrodus affinis, Acrodus alexandrae, Acrodus anningiae, Acrodus braunii, Acrodus cretaceus, Acrodus cuneocostatus, Acrodus dolloi, Acrodus emmonsi, Acrodus flemingianus, Acrodus gaillardoti, Acrodus georgii, Acrodus giedroyci, Acrodus hirudo, Acrodus humilis, Acrodus jaeckeli, Acrodus keuperinus, Acrodus lateralis, Acrodus nitidus, Acrodus nobilis, Acrodus olsoni, Acrodus oppenheimeri, Acrodus paranense, Acrodus scaber, Acrodus spitzbergensis, Acrodus substriatus, Acrodus sweetlacruzensis, Acrodus transversus, Acrodus undulatus, Acrodus vermicularis, Acrodus vermiformis, Acrodus wempliae
Type specimen: UCMP 10251, a tooth. Its type locality is Cottonwood Canyon, west Humboldt Range, which is in an Anisian/Ladinian marine horizon in Nevada.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (2: Nevada collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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