Cyclobatis oligodactylus Egerton 1844 (shark)

Chondrichthyes - Trygonidae

Full reference: P. G. Egerton. 1844. Description of a fossil ray from Mount Lebanon (Cyclobatis oligodactylus). Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 4:442-446

Belongs to Cyclobatis according to P. L. Forey et al. 2003

See also Cappetta 1980, Cappetta 1987, Davis 1887, Egerton 1844, Pictet 1850, Pictet and Humbert 1866 and Woodward 1889

Sister taxa: Cyclobatis longicaudatus, Cyclobatis major, Cyclobatis tuberculatus

Type specimen: BMNH P.601, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Hakel (Egerton collection), which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal carbonate in Lebanon.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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