Bathytheristes Duffin 1995 (plownose chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae

Full reference: C. J. Duffin. 1995. Holocephalans in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart 3. First chimaeroid from the Lias of Baden-Württemberg (Early Toarcian of Ohmden). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 231:1-12

Parent taxon: Callorhynchidae according to C. J. Duffin 1995

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Bathytheristes gracilis

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Type: Bathytheristes gracilis

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gonser quarry, Ohmden (Lias Epsilon II-6) (Jurassic of Germany)

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