#edaphodon

[mouserrouser]

Mermay 16: BeachGoth

Etretie Aniscah, a sea god of the night, the stars, and eel-fish (chimera). They are one of the gods of the Divine Circle, an Anazahgrat pantheon of the Greater Coalition.

[sinasinasinas]

Edaphodon bucklandii

[todropscience]

A new species of an extintc chimaera Edaphodon snowhillensis is described based on a complete dentition collected in the Snow Hill Island Formation of James Ross Island, Antarctica.

 Edaphodon snowhillensis represents the most complete dentition of a holocephalian fish from the Southern Hemisphere and the earliest record of the genus Edaphodon from the Antarctic and the Weddellian Biogeographic Province. Also, E. snowhillensis is the southernmost specimen of this genus and according to the size of the tooth plates is one of the largest chimaeroid fish known. 

Image:  A-Vomerine Tooth Plates. B-Palatine Tooth Plates.C- Mandibular Tooth Plates. D- Comparative reconstruction of E. snowhillensis,  silhouette in gray above and Chimaera monstrosa line drawing below.

Reference: Gouiric-Cavalli et al. 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