The first record of the chimaeroid genus Edaphodon (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from Antarctica (Snow Hill Island Formation, Late Cretaceous, James Ross Island)

• Published in: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Main Authors: Gouiric Cavalli, Soledad, Cabrera, Daniel Alfredo, Cione, Alberto Luis, O'gorman, Jose Patricio, Coria, Rodolfo Anibal, Fernández, Marta Susana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Subjects: Holocephali; Cretaceous; Antarctica; Marine; Fishes; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Ross Island; Argentina; Hill Island; Snow Hill Island; Coria; Herbert Sound; Snow Hill; Antarc*; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/53488

A new species of an edaphodontid holocephalian, Edaphodon snowhillensis, sp. nov., is described based on a complete dentition collected in the late Campanian Herbert Sound Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation of James Ross Island, Antarctica. The dentition consists of paired vomerine, mandibular...