Protolamna Cappetta 1980 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42

Parent taxon: Pseudoscapanorhynchidae according to H. M. Maisch et al. 2021

See also Cappetta 1980, Cappetta and Case 1999, Cicimurri et al. 2014, Cook et al. 2008, Cuny et al. 2004, Guinot et al. 2013, Kriwet 1999, Kriwet et al. 2008, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Rees 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Siversson and Machalski 2017 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999

Sister taxa: Cretodus, Pseudoscapanorhynchus

Subtaxa: Protolamna borodini Protolamna carteri Protolamna roanokeensis Protolamna sokolovi

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Type: Protolamna sokolovi

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta collection), France (12), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (2), Poland (3), Spain (4), Sweden (2), Tunisia (4), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (4), United States (18: Delaware, Georgia, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas)

Total: 59 collections each including a single occurrence

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