Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Somniosidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Les sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. I: requins. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 168:69-148
Parent taxon: Somniosidae according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2022
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Centroscymnus, Centroselachus, Palaeocentroscymnus, Protoxynotus, Rhinoscymnus, Scymnodalatias, Scymnodon, Somniosus, Zameus
Subtaxa: Cretascymnus adonis Cretascymnus beauryi Cretascymnus quimbalaensis Cretascymnus westfalicus
Type: Centrophorus adonis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Bulgaria (2 collections)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Austria (7), Bulgaria (1), Germany (8), Israel (1), Lebanon (1)
Total: 21 collections including 22 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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