Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdonidae
Alternative combination: Galeocerdo alabamensis
Synonyms: Galeocerdo aegyptiacus Stromer 1905, Galeocerdo aegypticus Stromer 1905
Full reference: M. Leriche. 1942. Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (Nouvelle Serie) 45:1-111
Belongs to Physogaleus according to J. Türtscher et al. 2021
See also Ebersole et al. 2019, Leder 2013, Malyshkina et al. 2013 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: Physogaleus contortus, Physogaleus cuvieri, Physogaleus hemmooriensis, Physogaleus latus, Physogaleus maltzani, Physogaleus onkensis, Physogaleus rosehillensis, Physogaleus secundus, Physogaleus tertius
Type specimens:
- Physogaleus alabamensis: Its type locality is Melvin, southeast of, which is in a Priabonian marginal marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Yazoo Formation of Alabama
- Galeocerdo aegyptiacus:
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Egypt (7 collections), Ukraine (1), United States (12: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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