Crossorhinus jurassicus Woodward 1919 (carpet shark)

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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