Paraisurus Glikman 1957 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Paraisuridae

Alternative spelling: Parisurus

Full reference: L. S. Glikman. 1957. O geneticheskoy svyazi semeystva Lamnidae i Odontaspidae i novykh rodakh verkhnemelovykh lamnid. Trudy Geologicheskogo Muzeya Imeni A.P. Karpinskogo 1:110-117

Parent taxon: Paraisuridae according to M. Siversson and M. Machalski 2017

See also Cappetta and Case 1999, Glikman 1957, Herman 1977, Herman 1979, Sepkoski 2002 and Siverson 1997

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Paraisurus compressus Paraisurus macrorhizus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), France (3), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Texas), Uzbekistan (1)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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