Macrodon hamiltoniae Hall & Whitfield 1869

Description

Macrodon hamiltoniae Hall & Whitfield, 1869

Original source

Hall & Whitfield (1869): 13.

Type stratum and age

“Hamilton group [...] soft shales of Bedford”; Middle Devonian.

Type locality

“in most of the localities from Schoharie county to the centre of the State, [...] in Onandaga county, and at Canandaigua and Seneca lakes. [...] in the town of Bedford, Cuyahoga county, Ohio ”, United States of America.

Type material

Hall did not designate a holotype; syntypes (AMNH-FI-5301, AMNH-FI-6555) are stored at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Remarks

Pojeta et al. (1986: 89) placed the species in Parallelodon, Linsley (1994) in Gramatodon [sic].

Authors

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20750701

Publication Date: 2026-06-04

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