Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Alternative combination: Sphyrna gilmorei
Full reference: M. Leriche. 1942. Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (Nouvelle Serie) 45:1-111
Belongs to Negaprion according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2024
See also Ebersole et al. 2019 and Leriche 1942
Sister taxa: Negaprion brevirostris, Negaprion eurybathrodon
Type specimen: Its type locality is Melvin, southeast of, which is in a Priabonian marginal marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Yazoo Formation of Alabama
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: Alabama collection)
• Eocene of United States (11: Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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