Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Full reference: P. Egerton. 1854. On some new genera and species of fossil fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 13:433-436
Belongs to Asteracanthus according to A. S. Woodward 1889
See also Woodward 1916
Sister taxa: Asteracanthus acutus, Asteracanthus aegyptiacus, Asteracanthus compressus, Asteracanthus magnus, Asteracanthus medius, Asteracanthus minor, Asteracanthus ornatissimus, Asteracanthus papillosus, Asteracanthus semisulcatus, Asteracanthus siderius, Asteracanthus somaensis, Asteracanthus tenuis
Type specimen: BMNH, an osteoderm
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at V1sc-Jura (Cretaceous of Switzerland)
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