Chondrichthyes - Euselachii - Protospinacidae
Alternative combination: Belemnobatis annectans
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1919. On two new elasmobranch fishes (Crossorhinus jurassicus, sp. nov. and Protospinax annectans, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic stone of Bavaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13:231-235
Belongs to Protospinax according to D. Thies 1983
See also Maisey 1976 and Woodward 1919
Sister taxa: Protospinax bilobatus, Protospinax carvalhoi, Protospinax lochensteinensis, Protospinax magnus, Protospinax planus
Type specimen: BMNH P8775. Its type locality is Solnhofen (BMNH collection), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (1 collection), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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