Agkistracanthus mitgelensis Duffin and Furrer 1981 (chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae

Full reference: C. J. Duffin and H. Furrer. 1981. Myriacanthid holocephalan remains from the Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) and Hettangian (Lower Jurassic) of Graubünden (Switzerland). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 74:803-829

Belongs to Agkistracanthus according to C. J. Duffin 1994

See also Duffin and Furrer 1981

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: A/I 858 (dorsal fin spine). Its type locality is Piz Son Mitgel, Kanton Graubünden, which is in a Rhaetian marine limestone in the Kössen Formation of Switzerland.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Switzerland (4 collections), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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