Squalicorax primigenius Landemaine 1991 (crow shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae

Full reference: O. Landemaine. 1991. Sélaciens nouveaux du Crétacé supérieur du Sud-Ouest de la France. Quelques apports à la systématique des élasmobranches. SAGA Information, Hors-Série 1:1-45

Belongs to Squalicorax according to M. Siverson 1997

See also Landemaine 1991

Sister taxa: Palaeoanacorax volgensis, Priscusurus adruptodontus, Squalicorax acutus, Squalicorax africanus, Squalicorax arnaudi, Squalicorax baharijensis, Squalicorax bassanii, Squalicorax bazzii, Squalicorax benguerirensis, Squalicorax bernardezi, Squalicorax coquandi, Squalicorax crassidens, Squalicorax curvatus, Squalicorax dalinkeviciusi, Squalicorax deckeri, Squalicorax dubius, Squalicorax falcatus, Squalicorax incisus, Squalicorax intermedius, Squalicorax kaupi, Squalicorax kugleri, Squalicorax laevis, Squalicorax lalunaensis, Squalicorax microserratus, Squalicorax minor, Squalicorax mississippiensis, Squalicorax moodyi, Squalicorax mutabilis, Squalicorax parallelus, Squalicorax pawpawensis, Squalicorax primaevus, Squalicorax primulus, Squalicorax priscoserratus, Squalicorax pristodontus, Squalicorax sagisicus, Squalicorax trapezoidalis, Squalicorax yangaensis, Anacorax santonicus, Anacorax kugleri, Anacorax papulovi, Corax jaekeli, Corax kaupi, Microanacorax praeyangaensis, Paraanacorax obruchevi, Palaeoanacorax intermedius, Palaeoanacorax pamiricus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Greenish black muds of the Šventoji river, which is in an Albian marine mudstone in the Jiesia Formation of Lithuania

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (3 collections), Lithuania (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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