Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Modification du statut générique de quelques espèces de sélaciens crétacés et tertiaires. Palaeovertebrata 10:29-42
Parent taxon: Pseudoscapanorhynchidae according to C. D. Benavides-Cabra et al. 2026
See also Cappetta 1980, Cappetta and Case 1999, Cicimurri et al. 2014, Cook et al. 2008, Cuny et al. 2004, Guinot et al. 2013, Juranek and Shimada 2025, Kriwet 1999, Kriwet et al. 2008, Maisch et al. 2021, Müller and Diedrich 1991, Rees 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Siversson and Machalski 2017 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999
Sister taxa: Cretodus, Lilamna, Pseudoscapanorhynchus
Subtaxa: Protolamna borodini Protolamna carteri Protolamna gigantea Protolamna ricaurtei Protolamna roanokeensis Protolamna sarstedtensis Protolamna sokolovi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (1 collection), Argentina (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Colombia (2), France (17), Germany (2), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (2), Nigeria (1), Poland (3), Spain (4), Sweden (2), Tunisia (4), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (7), United States (23: Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 80 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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