Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alternative combination: Oxyrhina exigua
Belongs to Alopias according to S. Everaert et al. 2019
See also Baut and Génault 1999, Kocsis 2007, Landau et al. 2025, Leriche 1926, Nolf 1988, Pollerspöck and Beaury 2014, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015 and Villafaña et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Alopias acutidens, Alopias crochardi, Alopias denticulatus, Alopias grandis, Alopias hermani, Alopias latidens, Alopias macrourus, Alopias palatasi, Alopias subexigua, Alopias superciliosus, Alopias vulpinus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (2), France (3), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Japan (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (6), France (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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