Alopias exigua Probst 1879 (thresher shark)

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, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015 and Villafaña et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Alopias acutidens, Alopias denticulatus, Alopias grandis, Alopias latidens, Alopias macrourus, Alopias palatasi, Alopias superciliosus, Alopias vulpinus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Japan (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1)

• Oligocene of Belgium (2), France (1), United States (1: California)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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