“…The extinct hybodontiform chondrichthyan Strophodus Agassiz, 1838, with an estimated maximum body length of up to three meters and its massive, powerful jaws equipped with highly specialized crushing teeth suitable for breaking up various kinds of marine hard-shelled invertebrate prey, is one of the most iconic durophagous predators that ever roamed the Mesozoic seas (e.g., Cappetta, 2012;Szabó & Főzy, 2020). Extending for more than 130 million years, from the Middle Triassic (Anisian-Ladinian) to the Early Cretaceous (Albian) (Cappetta, 2012), Strophodus boasts an extensive fossil record that is mainly dominated by its characteristic teeth, which occur frequently in a wide variety of depositional environments, providing discrete combinations of dental characters for use in species identification and establishing reliable diagnoses (e.g., Carrillo-Briceño & Cadena, 2022;Leuzinger et al, 2017;Peyer, 1946;Rees & Underwood, 2008;Rigal & Cuny, 2016;Stumpf et al, 2022;Szabó, 2021;Szabó & Főzy, 2020).…”