Plicatoscyllium globidens Cappetta and Case 1975

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae

Alternative combination: Ginglymostoma globidens

Full reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1975. Contribution a l'étude des sélaciens du Groupe Monmouth (Campanien-Maestrichtian) du New Jersey. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 151:1-46

Belongs to Plicatoscyllium according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019

See also Cappetta and Case 1975, Case 1991, Case and Cappetta 2004 and Case and Schwimmer 1988

Sister taxa: Plicatoscyllium derameei, Plicatoscyllium gharbii, Plicatoscyllium lehneri, Plicatoscyllium minutum, Plicatoscyllium youssoufiaense

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hop Brook (HBR), which is in a Maastrichtian coastal sandstone in the Navesink Formation of New Jersey

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), France (2), United States (13: Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Wyoming)

Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence

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