Protospinax carvalhoi Underwood and Ward 2004 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Protospinaciformes - Protospinacidae

Full reference: C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2004. Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3):447-501

Belongs to Protospinax according to A. Begat et al. 2025

See also Delsate and Felten 2015 and Underwood and Ward 2004

Sister taxa: Protospinax annectans, Protospinax lochensteinensis, Protospinax planus

Type specimen: BMNH P66130, a test.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Longwy (Jurassic of France)

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