Foumtizia gadaensis Noubhani and Cappetta 1997 (cat shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

Full reference: A. Noubhani and H. Cappetta. 1997. Les Orectolobiformes, Carcharhiniformes et Myliobatiformes (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc (Maastrichtien-Lutétien basal). Systématique, biostratigraphie, évolution et dynamique des faunes. Palaeo Ichthyologica 8:1-327

Belongs to Foumtizia according to G. Guinot et al. 2020

See also Noubhani and Cappetta 1997

Sister taxa: Foumtizia abdouni, Foumtizia arba, Foumtizia pattersoni, Foumtizia poudenxae, Foumtizia zhelezkoi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Ben Guerir, couche 0, which is in a Danian carbonate marl in Morocco

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Morocco (4 collections), Togo (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Morocco (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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