Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
Full reference: J. Herman. 1977. Les sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés and paléocènes de Belgique and des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale. Mémoires pour Servir a l'Explication des Cartes Géologiques et Minières de la Belgique 15:1-450
Belongs to Palaeogaleus according to C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward 2008
See also Herman 1977 and Thies and Müller 1993
Sister taxa: Palaeogaleus brivesi, Palaeogaleus dahmanii, Palaeogaleus faujasi, Palaeogaleus larachei, Palaeogaleus navarroensis, Palaeogaleus prior, Palaeogaleus sublaevis, Palaeogaleus vincenti
Type specimen: Its type locality is New Havré lock (base of Craie d'Obourg), which is in a Campanian carbonate chalk in the Obourg Formation of Belgium
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (2 collections), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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