Family Callorhinchidae Garman 1901 (plownose chimaera)

Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhinchidae

Parent taxon: Chimaeroidei according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2022

See also Buchanan et al. 2007, Jordan 1963, Kent 2018, Kriwet and Gazdizicki 2003, Nelson 2006, Nelson et al. 2016, Parmley and Cicimurri 2005 and Popov and Shapovalov 2021

Sister taxa: Anteliochimaera, Callorhinchoidea, Chalcodus, Chimaeroidea, Eomanodon, Rhinochimaeridae

Subtaxa: Brachymylus Callorhinchus Ganodus Pachymylus

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Type: Callorhinchus

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of Antarctica (2 collections), Chile (1)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Mississippi)

• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1)

• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 8 collections including 12 occurrences

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