Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae

Full reference: S. Gouiric-Cavalli, D. A. Cabrera, A. L. Cione, J. P. O'Gorman, R. A. Coria and M. Fernández. 2015. The first record of the chimaeroid genus Edaphodon (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from Antarctica (Snow Hill Island Formation, Late Cretaceous, James Ross Island). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):1-12

Belongs to Edaphodon according to S. Gouiric-Cavalli et al. 2015

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 mirabilis, Edaphodon mirificus, Edaphodon monolophus, Edaphodon reedi, Edaphodon sedgwicki, Edaphodon smockii, Edaphodon solidulus, Edaphodon stenobryus, Edaphodon sweeti, Edaphodon tripartitus

Type specimen: MLP 13-I-26-1, a set of teeth (Complete left and an almost complete right mandibular tooth plate, and two almost complete palatine and vomerine tooth plates). Its type locality is James Ross Island, Herbert Sound Member, which is in a Campanian marine sandstone/mudstone in the Snow Hill Island Formation of Antarctica.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at James Ross Island, Herbert Sound Member

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