Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Paraorthacodontidae
Parent taxon: Paraorthacodontidae according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
See also Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Duffin and Ward 1993, Guinot et al. 2014, Guinot et al. 2013, Hoganson et al. 2019, Klug 2008, Rees 2000, Sepkoski 2002, Siverson 1997, Stumpf and Kriwet 2019 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Paraorthacodus andersoni Paraorthacodus arduennae Paraorthacodus conicus Paraorthacodus eocaenus Paraorthacodus hesbayensis Paraorthacodus jurensis Paraorthacodus kruckowi Paraorthacodus recurvus Paraorthacodus rossi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Chile (1)
• Paleocene of France (1), New Zealand (4)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (1), France (4), Israel (2), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (16), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (9), United States (4: Montana, North Dakota)
• Jurassic of Denmark (1), France (6), Germany (5), Poland (2), Sweden (1)
Total: 72 collections including 79 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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