Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Squalidae
Full reference: A. O. Averianov. 1997. Additions to the selachian fauna of the Russian Cretaceous. 1. A new species of Protosqualus Cappetta, 1977 (Chondrichthyes, Squalidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 5:319-320
Belongs to Protosqualus according to T. Sokolskyi and G. Guinot 2021
See also Adnet et al. 2008 and Averianov 1997
Sister taxa: Protosqualus albertsae, Protosqualus argentinensis, Protosqualus barringtonensis, Protosqualus pachyrhiza, Protosqualus sigei
Type specimen: ZIN PC 1/13, a tooth. Its type locality is SSI-2, Sinenkiye 2, which is in a Cenomanian coastal sandstone in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lithuania (8 collections), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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