Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
Alternative combination: Eugaleus ypresiensis
Full reference: E. Casier. 1946. La faune ichthyologique de l'Ypresien de la Belgique. Memoires Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 104:1-267
Belongs to Galeorhinus according to R. M. Leder 2013
See also Bor 1985, Casier 1946, Ebersole et al. 2019 and Nolf 1988
Sister taxa: Galeorhinus cuvieri, Galeorhinus duchaussoisi, Galeorhinus falconeri, Galeorhinus galeus, Galeorhinus girardoti, Galeorhinus goncalvesi, Galeorhinus hannibali, Galeorhinus huberensis, Galeorhinus loangoensis, Galeorhinus louisi, Galeorhinus mesetaensis, Galeorhinus microdon, Galeorhinus minor, Galeorhinus minutissimus, Galeorhinus parvulus, Galeorhinus tenuis, Eugaleus falconeri, Eugaleus latus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (3 collections), the Netherlands (3), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (7), United States (2: Alabama, Virginia)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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