†Palaeorhincodon Herman 1975 (carpet shark)
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Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Rhinocodontidae
Parent taxon: Rhinocodontidae according to G. R. Case et al. 2015
See also Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Sepkoski 2002 and Thies 1989
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Palaeorhincodon daouii Palaeorhincodon dartevellei
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Morocco (3 collections), 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: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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