Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Rhinocodontidae
Full reference: J. Herman. 1974. Compléments paléoichthyologiques à la faune éocène de la Belgique. 1. Palaeorhincodon, genre nouveau de l'Eocène belge. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie 83:7-13
Parent taxon: Rhinocodontidae according to G. R. Case et al. 2015
See also Herman 1974, Landau et al. 2025, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Thies 1989
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Palaeorhincodon daouii Palaeorhincodon dartevellei Palaeorhincodon fialhoi Palaeorhincodon wardi
Type: Palaeorhincodon wardi
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Portugal (1 collection)
• Eocene of Belgium (4), France (4), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (3: Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene of Algeria (1), Morocco (3)
• Jurassic of Germany (1)
Total: 29 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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