†family Protospinacidae Woodward 1919 (elasmobranch)
Chondrichthyes - Euselachii - Protospinacidae
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1919. On two new elasmobranch fishes (Crossorhinus jurassicus, sp. nov. and Protospinax annectans, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic stone of Bavaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13:231-235
Parent taxon: Hypnosqualea according to C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward 2004
See also Delsate 2003, Thies 1983, Underwood 2002 and Underwood 2006
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Breviacanthus Protospinax
Type: Protospinax
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection)
• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (4), Luxembourg (7), Poland (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 24 collections including 29 occurrences