Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Crossorhinidae
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1919. On two new elasmobranch fishes (Crossorhinus jurassicus, sp. nov. and Protospinax annectans, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Upper Jurassic lithographic stone of Bavaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13:231-235
Belongs to Crossorhinus according to A. S. Woodward 1919
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BMNH 11211, a skeleton (nearly complete fish). Its type locality is Solnhofen (BMNH collection), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Solnhofen (BMNH collection)
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