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 J. G. Allen and K. Shimada 2022

See also Cappetta et al. 2014, Guinot et al. 2013, Shimada 2008 and Underwood and Cumbaa 2010

Sister taxon: Nanocorax crassus

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 (2: Kansas)

Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence

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