Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Alternative combination: Palaeospinax rhaeticus
Full reference: C. J. Duffin. 1982. A palaeospinacid shark from the Upper Triassic of south-west England. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 74:1-7
Belongs to Synechodus according to G. Cuny and S. Risnes 2005
See also Cuny et al. 2000, Duffin 1982 and Duffin 1998
Sister taxa: Hybodus bronnii, Synechodus antiquus, Synechodus clarki, Synechodus dereki, Synechodus dubrisiensis, Synechodus duffini, Synechodus egertoni, Synechodus faxensis, Synechodus filipi, Synechodus incrementum, Synechodus kessleri, Synechodus lerichei, Synechodus levis, Synechodus multinodosus, Synechodus nitidus, Synechodus paludinensis, Synechodus plicatus, Synechodus prorogatus, Synechodus riegrafi, Synechodus seinstedtensis, Synechodus streitzi, Synechodus subulatus, Synechodus subulatus, Synechodus sulcatus, Synechodus tenuis, Synechodus triangulus, Synechodus turneri, Synechodus ungeri, Synechodus validus, Synechodus volaticus
Type specimen: OS 2'1978, a dermal scale (fin spine). Its type locality is Aust Cliff bone bed (Leicester Museum), which is in a Rhaetian coastal conglomerate in the Westbury Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Belgium (1 collection), France (2), Luxembourg (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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