Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Alternative combination: Physogaleus alabamensis
Full reference: M. Leriche. 1942. Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (Nouvelle Serie) 45:1-111
Belongs to Galeocerdo according to Leriche 1942
See also Ebersole et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Galeocerdo acanthodon, Galeocerdo aduncus, Galeocerdo clarkensis, Galeocerdo cuvier, Galeocerdo davisi, Galeocerdo denticulatus, Galeocerdo eaglesomei, Galeocerdo egertoni, Galeocerdo gibberulus, Galeocerdo latidens, Galeocerdo minor, Galeocerdo mixtus, Galeocerdo rosaliensis, Galeocerdo semilevis, Galeocerdo subcrenatus, Galeocerdo tigrinus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Melvin, southeast of, which is in a Priabonian marginal marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Yazoo Formation of Alabama
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (12: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana collections)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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