Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Squalidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1977. Sélaciens nouveaux de l'Albien supérieur de Wissant (Pas-de-Calais). Geobios 10:967-973
Belongs to Protosqualus according to S. Adnet et al. 2008
See also Biddle 1993, Cappetta 1977, Müller and Diedrich 1991 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999
Sister taxa: Protosqualus argentinensis, Protosqualus barringtonensis, Protosqualus glickmani, Protosqualus pachyrhiza
Type specimen: Its type locality is St-Pô Farm, between Petit Blanc-Nez and Strouanne, which is in an Albian marine siliciclastic in France
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (6 collections), the United Kingdom (37)
Total: 43 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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