Centroscymnus Barbosa du Bocage and Brito Capello 1864 (sleeper shark)
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Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Somniosidae
Parent taxon: Somniosidae according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
See also Casier 1958, Jordan 1963, Malzahn 1979, Siverson 1993 and Straube et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Centroselachus, Cretascymnus, Palaeocentroscymnus, Protoxynotus, Rhinoscymnus, Scymnodalatias, Scymnodon, Somniosus, Zameus
Subtaxa: Centroscymnus owstonii Centroscymnus praecursor Centroscymnus schmidi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (1 collection)
• Eocene of Barbados (1), France (2)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (2: British Columbia), Germany (6), Israel (1), Sweden (2)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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