Orectoloboides multistriatus Werner 1989 (wobbegong)

Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae

Full reference: C. Werner. 1989. Die Elasmobranchier-Fauna des Gebel Dist Member der Bahariya Formation (Obercenoman) der Oase Bahariya, Ägypten. Palaeo Ichthyologica 5:1-112

Belongs to Orectoloboides according to C. Werner 1989

Sister taxa: Orectoloboides angulatus, Orectoloboides parvulus, Orectoloboides reyndersi

Type specimen: TUB-SFB69-Vb-397, a tooth. Its type locality is Gebel el Dist, Bahariya Oasis, which is in a Cenomanian marginal marine siliciclastic in the Bahariya Formation of Egypt.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gebel el Dist, Bahariya Oasis

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