Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Full reference: E. Dartevelle and E. Casier. 1943. Les poissons fossiles du Bas-Congo et des régions voisines. Annales du Musée du Congo Belge. A - Minéralogie Géologie, Paléontologie. Série III 2(1):1-200
Belongs to Ginglymostoma according to R. Tabuce et al. 2005
See also Casier 1958, Dartevelle and Casier 1943 and Noubhani and Cappetta 1997
Sister taxa: Ginglymostoma botmaense, Ginglymostoma chenanei, Ginglymostoma cirratum, Ginglymostoma cuspidata, Ginglymostoma erramii, Ginglymostoma khouribgaense, Ginglymostoma lithuanica, Ginglymostoma magrebianum, Ginglymostoma malembeense, Ginglymostoma maroccanum, Ginglymostoma pectinatum, Ginglymostoma serra, Ginglymostoma sokotoense, Ginglymostoma subafricanum
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Angola (2 collections), Barbados (1), France (1), Morocco (5), Senegal (1), Togo (1)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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