Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Squalidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1977. Sélaciens nouveaux de l'Albien supérieur de Wissant (Pas-de-Calais). Geobios 10:967-973
Parent taxon: Squalidae according to S. Bogan et al. 2016
See also Adnet et al. 2008, Biddle 1993, Cappetta 1977, Guinot et al. 2013, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Sepkoski 2002, Underwood 2004, Underwood et al. 2011 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999
Sister taxa: Acanthidium, Acanthorhinus, Atractophorus, Centrophoroides, Centroscyllium, Centrosqualus, Dalatiinae, Entoxychirus, Lepidorhinus, Machephilus, Megasqualus, Microetmopterus, Nasisqualus, Paracentroscyllium, Protocentrophorus, Scymnodon, Spinax, Squalinae, Squalus, Zameus
Subtaxa: Protosqualus argentinensis Protosqualus barringtonensis Protosqualus glickmani Protosqualus pachyrhiza Protosqualus sigei
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), France (1), Germany (1), India (1), Lithuania (8), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (43)
Total: 56 collections including 59 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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