Protospinax Woodward 1919 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Protospinaciformes - Protospinacidae

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

Parent taxon: Protospinacidae according to A. Begat et al. 2025

See also Adnet et al. 2008, Delsate 2003, Delsate and Felten 2015, Guinot et al. 2014, Jordan 1963, Kriwet 2003, Maisey 1976, Sepkoski 2002, Thies 1983, Underwood 2002, Underwood and Ward 2004, van der Laan 2019 and Woodward 1919

Sister taxon: Breviacanthus

Subtaxa: Protospinax annectans Protospinax carvalhoi Protospinax lochensteinensis Protospinax planus

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Type: Protospinax annectans

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (7), Luxembourg (7), Poland (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 25 collections including 30 occurrences

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