Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cardabiodontidae
Full reference: M. Siverson. 1999. A new large lamniform shark from the uppermost Gearle Siltstone (Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous) of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 90:49-66
Parent taxon: Cardabiodontidae according to M. Siversson and M. Machalski 2017
See also Guinot et al. 2013, Siverson 1999 and Underwood et al. 2011
Sister taxon: Cardabiodon
Subtaxa: Dwardius sudindicus Dwardius woodwardi
Type: Cretolamna woodwardi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), India (1), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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