Squaliolus schaubi Casier 1958

Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Dalatiidae

Alternative combination: Centroscymnus schaubi

Full reference: E. Casier. 1958. Contribution à l'étude des Poissons fossiles des Antiles. Mémoires Suisses de Paléontologie 74:1-95

Belongs to Squaliolus according to C. J. Underwood and J. Schlogl 2013

See also Casier 1966 and Underwood and Mitchell 2004

Sister taxa: Squaliolus gasconensis, Squaliolus laticaudus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bissex Hill, which is in a Priabonian marine siltstone in the Joe's River Formation of Barbados

Distribution:

• Miocene of Jamaica (1 collection), Slovakia (7)

• Eocene of Barbados (5)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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