Squatirhina thiesi Biddle 1993 (ray)

Euselachii - Rajiformes

Full reference: J. P. Biddle. 1993. Les Elasmobranches de l'Albien inferieur et moyen (Cretace inferieur) de la Marne et de la Haute-Marne (France). Belgian Geological Survey 264:191-240

Belongs to Squatirhina according to G. Guinot et al. 2012

See also Biddle 1993 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999

Sister taxa: Squatirhina draytoni, Squatirhina kannensis, Squatirhina lonzeensis, Squatirhina westfalica

Type specimen: Its type locality is Pargny-sur-Saulx, horizon H1, which is in an Albian marine claystone in France

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (5 collections), Kazakhstan (1), the United Kingdom (7)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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