Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Squalidae
Full reference: J. D. Davis. 1887. The fossil fishes of the chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria. The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Series II 3:457-634
Parent taxon: Squalidae according to R. A. Otero et al. 2013
See also Guinot et al. 2013, Jordan 1963 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthidium, Acanthorhinus, Atractophorus, Centrosqualus, Cirrhigaleus, Dalatiinae, Entoxychirus, Lepidorhinus, Machephilus, Megasqualus, Microetmopterus, Nasisqualus, Paracentroscyllium, Protocentrophorus, Protosqualus, Spinax, Squalinae, Squalus
Subtaxa: Centrophoroides appendiculatus Centrophoroides latidens Centrophoroides volgensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Chile (3), France (2), Germany (1), Japan (2), Lebanon (3)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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