Lissodus wardi Duffin 1985 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes

Full reference: C. J. Duffin. 1985. Revision of the hybodont selachian genus Lissodus Brough (1935). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 188(4-6):105-152

Belongs to Lissodus according to C. J. Duffin 1985

Sister taxa: Lissodus africanus, Lissodus angulatus, Lissodus bartheli, Lissodus cassangensis, Lissodus cristatus, Lissodus guenneguesi, Lissodus hasleensis, Lissodus johnsonorum, Lissodus leiodus, Lissodus leiopleurus, Lissodus lepagei, Lissodus levis, Lissodus minimus, Lissodus xiushuiensis

Type specimen: P.58701 (BM(NH)), a tooth. Its type locality is Watton Cliff (West Cliff), Dorset, which is in a Bathonian crevasse splay mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Forest Marble Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Watton Cliff (West Cliff), Dorset

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