Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Full reference: F. Chapman and F. A. Cudmore. 1924. New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group. Royal Society of Victoria 36(2):107-162
Belongs to Edaphodon according to F. Chapman and F. A. Cudmore 1924
Sister taxa: Edaphodon agassizi, Edaphodon antwerpiensis, Edaphodon barberi, Edaphodon crassus, Edaphodon divaricatus, Edaphodon eocaenus, Edaphodon eurygnathus, Edaphodon fecundus, Edaphodon gaskillii, Edaphodon hesperis, Edaphodon incrassatus, Edaphodon kawai, Edaphodon laminosus, Edaphodon laterigerus, Edaphodon latidens, Edaphodon leptognathus, Edaphodon longirostris, Edaphodon miersii, Edaphodon mirificus, Edaphodon monolophus, Edaphodon reedi, Edaphodon sedgwicki, Edaphodon smockii, Edaphodon snowhillensis, Edaphodon solidulus, Edaphodon stenobryus, Edaphodon sweeti, Edaphodon tripartitus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Beaumaris, which is in a Messinian shoreface sandstone in the Black Rock Sandstone Formation of Australia
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Beaumaris
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