Eoetmopterus Muller and Schollmann 1989 (shark)

Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Etmopteridae

Parent taxon: Etmopteridae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2022

See also Cappetta et al. 2019, Sepkoski 2002, Siverson 1993 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999

Sister taxa: Etmopterus, Incognitorapax, Miroscyllium, Orthechinorhinus, Paraetmopterus, Proetmopterus, Trigonognathus

Subtaxa: Eoetmopterus davidi Eoetmopterus supracretaceus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (2 collections), Canada (2: British Columbia), Germany (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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