Order LAMNIFORMES Berg, 1958
Family XIPHODOLAMIIDAE Glickman, 1964
Genus XIPHODOLAMIA Leidy, 1877
Xiphodolamia ensis Leidy, 1877
[= X. eocaena (Woodward, 1889)]


Early and Middle Eocene (Ypresian & Lutetian) of Belgium.

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Upper anterior tooth - Basal gravel (base of unit A), Lutetian, Middle Eocene of Oosterzele.
 
 
 
Lower anterior tooth - Basal gravel (base of unit A), Lutetian, Middle Eocene of Oosterzele.
 
 
 
Lateral tooth - Middle Ypresian, Early Eocene of Egem.
 
 
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ADNET, S., HOSSEINZADEH, R., ANTUNES, M., BALBINO, A., KOZLOV, V. & CAPPETTA, H., 2009. Review of the enigmatic Eocene shark genus Xiphodolamia (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes) and description of a new species recovered from Angola, Iran and Jordan. Journal of African Earth Sciences, in press.
LEIDY, J., 1877. Description of vertebrate remains, chiefly from the phosphate beds of South Carolina. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 209–261.