Cretorectolobus gracilis Underwood and Mitchell 1999 (wobbegong)

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae

Full reference: C. J. Underwood and S. F. Mitchell. 1999. Albian and Cenomanian selachian assemblages from north-east England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60:9-59

Belongs to Cretorectolobus according to C. J. Underwood and S. F. Mitchell 1999

Sister taxa: Cretorectolobus doylei, Cretorectolobus olsoni, Cretorectolobus robustus

Type specimen: LIVCM 1998.20.AS, a tooth. Its type locality is Sample 6a, South Ferriby, which is in an Albian offshore marl in the Hunstanton Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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