Nanocorax microserratodon Shimada 2008 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae

Alternative combinations: Palaeoanacorax microserratodon, Squalicorax microserratodon

Full reference: K. Shimada. 2008. New anacoracid shark from upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28:1189-1194

Belongs to Nanocorax according to G. Guinot et al. 2013

See also Shimada 2008 and Underwood and Cumbaa 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: KUVP 141876, a set of teeth. Its type locality is Southwestern Trego County, which is in a Coniacian offshore chalk in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (6 collections), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Kansas)

Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence

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