Deania Jordan and Snyder 1902 (gulper shark)

Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Centrophoridae

Synonym: Nasisqualus Smith 1912

Parent taxon: Centrophoridae according to N. Straube et al. 2015

See also Adnet et al. 2008, Cahuzac et al. 2007, Compagno 1984, Jordan 1963, Long 1992, Rodríguez-Cabello et al. 2020, Sepkoski 2002 and Villafaña et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Centrodeania, Centrophorus

Subtaxa: Deania angoumeensis Deania calcea

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Italy (2 collections)

• Miocene of Austria (1), France (12), Germany (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Spain (1)

• Eocene of France (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Germany (1)

Total: 27 collections each including a single occurrence

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