Edaphodon snowhillensis

Gouiric-Cavalli, Cabrera, Cione, O'gorman, Coria & Fernández, 2015


Classification: Holocephali Chimaeriformes Callorhinchidae

Reference of the original description
Gouiric-Cavalli, S. & Cabrera, D.A. & Cione, A.L. & O'Gorman, J.P. & Coria, R.A. & Fernández, M. (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), Article e981128

Types
Edaphodon snowhillensis
Holotype: MLP: 13-I-26-1;


Description:


Citation: Edaphodon snowhillensis Gouiric-Cavalli, Cabrera, Cione, O'gorman, Coria & Fernández, 2015: In: Database of fossil elasmobranch teeth www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 09/2026

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Description
Original diagnosis after Gouiric-Cavalli, Cabrera, Cione, O'gorman, Coria & Fernández, 2015 [22945]: Edaphodontidae’ with a crushing-breaking dentition. Mandibular tooth plate with four tritors. Big, undivided, and oval median tritor. Two smaller unequal outer tritors. Horsehoof-shaped anterior outer tritor [*]. Extended posterior outer tritor relatively wider than the anterior outer tritor. Beak tritor exposed at the mesial tip and in a narrow strip along the labial margin of the beak. Beak tritor not extending downward in the symphyseal surface. Triangular palatine tooth plate with four tritors. Both inner tritors oblong (longer than wide) and almost equal in size. Posterior inner tritor with a narrow anterior section and a wide posterior one. Small median tritor located distally to the inner posterior tritor. Elongated outer tritor, narrow at its distal end. Subquadrangular vomerine tooth plate [*]. Tritorial series of the vomerine tooth plate composed of 10–12 tritorial rods. One inner symphyseal tritorial rod in the vomerine tooth plate. Vomerine mesial angle scarcely marked.

References
Canalis, C.R. & Carnicero, A. & Gouiric-Cavalli, S. & Herrera, Y. (2026)
Type specimens of fossil fishes at the Museo de La Plata: a catalog. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 26(2), 1–29
DOI: 10.5710/PEAPA.16.06.2026.566
Reguero, M.A. & Gasparini, Z. & Olivero, E.B. & Coria, R.A. & Fernández, M.S. & O´Gorman, J.P. & Gouiric-Cavalli, S. & Hospitaleche, C.A. & Bona, P. & Iglesias, A. & Gelfo, J.N. & Raffi, M.E. & Moly, J.J. & Santillana, S.N. & Cárdenas, M. (2022)
Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian Vertebrates from the James Ross Basin, West Antarctica: Updated Synthesis, Biostratigraphy, and Paleobiogeography. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 94(Suppl. 1), Article e20211142
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202220211142
Gouiric-Cavalli, S. & Cabrera, D.A. & Cione, A.L. & O'Gorman, J.P. & Coria, R.A. & Fernández, M. (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), Article e981128
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.981128