A new species of chimaeroid fish from the upper Paleocene (Thanetian) of Maryland, USA

Gerard R. Case

Cite this article: Case G. R., 1991. A new species of chimaeroid fish from the upper Paleocene (Thanetian) of Maryland, USA. Palaeovertebrata 21 (1-2): 85-94.

Abstract

The recent discovery of several mandibular toothplates of a chimaeroid fish at a dig in the area of the Landover Mall, near Landover, Prince Georges County, Maryland, brings to our attention a new species of the chimaeroid, Ischyodus.
 Although superficially reminiscent of the European chimaeroid toothplates of Ischyodus thurmanni (cf. text-fig. 2), I. williamsae nov. sp. probably has a more closer relationship to I. bifurcatus CASE, 1978, of the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey and Delaware.