Mitsukurina Jordan 1898 (goblin shark)
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Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Parent taxon: Mitsukurinidae according to L. V. Compagno 2005
See also Herman 1977, Jordan 1963, Kocsis 2007, Sepkoski 2002 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Anomotodon, Clerolamna, Rhinognathus, Scapanorhynchus, Striatolamia, Woellsteinia
Subtaxa: Mitsukurina lineata
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Angola (1 collection)
• Miocene of Costa Rica (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (1)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Jordan (1), United States (1: Washington)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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