Pseudospinax Müller and Diedrich 1991 (carpet shark)

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae

Full reference: A. Müller and C. Diedrich. 1991. Selachier (Pisces, Chondrichthyes) aus dem Cenomanium von Ascheloh am Teutoburger Wald (Nordrhein-Westfalen, NW-Deutschland). Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 20:1-105

Parent taxon: Hemiscylliidae according to G. Guinot et al. 2013

See also Kriwet 2003, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Underwood 2002 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999

Sister taxa: Acanthoscyllium, Adnetoscyllium, Almascyllium, Chiloscyllium, Cirrhoscyllium, Folipistrix, Hemiscyllium, Notoramphoscyllium, Palaeobrachaelurus

Subtaxa: Pseudospinax heterodon Pseudospinax pusillus

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Type: Pseudospinax pusillus

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Germany (1 collection), the United Kingdom (9)

• Jurassic of Luxembourg (1), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence

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