Texatrygon copei Cappetta and Case 1999 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Sclerorhynchiformes - Ptychotrygonidae

Full reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1999. Additions aux faunes de sélaciens du Crétacé du Texas (Albien supérieur-Campanien). Palaeo Ichthyologica 9:5-111

Belongs to Texatrygon according to J. A. Schubert et al. 2017

See also Cappetta and Case 1999

Sister taxa: Texatrygon avonicola, Texatrygon benningensis, Texatrygon hooveri

Type specimen: Its type locality is North Sulphur River at Ladonia (NSR), which is in a Campanian carbonate marl in the Taylor Marl Formation of Texas

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (2: Texas collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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