Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Alternative combination: Palaeospinax egertoni
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 1-613
Belongs to Synechodus according to C. J. Duffin and D. J. Ward 1993
See also Maisey 1977
Sister taxa: Hybodus bronnii, Synechodus antiquus, Synechodus clarki, Synechodus dereki, Synechodus dubrisiensis, Synechodus duffini, Synechodus faxensis, Synechodus filipi, Synechodus incrementum, Synechodus kessleri, Synechodus lerichei, Synechodus levis, Synechodus multinodosus, Synechodus nitidus, Synechodus paludinensis, Synechodus plicatus, Synechodus prorogatus, Synechodus rhaeticus, 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: BMNH P.1132, a partial skull. Its type locality is Ohmden, Würtemberg (Egerton coll), which is in a Toarcian marine siliciclastic in Germany.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ohmden, Würtemberg (Egerton coll)
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