Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Full reference: M. Siversson, T. D. Cook, P. Cederström and H. E. Ryan. 2015. Early Campanian (Late Cretaceous) squatiniform and synechodontiform selachians from the Åsen locality, Kristianstad Basin, Sweden. Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434:251-275
Belongs to Synechodus according to M. Siversson et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Hybodus bronnii, Synechodus antiquus, Synechodus clarki, Synechodus dereki, Synechodus dubrisiensis, Synechodus duffini, Synechodus egertoni, Synechodus faxensis, Synechodus incrementum, Synechodus kessleri, Synechodus lerichei, Synechodus levis, Synechodus multinodosus, Synechodus nitidus, Synechodus paludinensis, Synechodus plicatus, Synechodus prorogatus, Synechodus rhaeticus, Synechodus riegrafi, Synechodus seinstedtensis, Synechodus streitzi, Synechodus subulatus, Synechodus subulatus, Synechodus sulcatus, Synechodus tenuis, Synechodus triangulus, Synechodus turneri, Synechodus ungeri, Synechodus validus, Synechodus volaticus
Type specimen: LO 12027 T, a tooth. Its type locality is Åsen, which is in a Campanian coastal sandstone/sandstone in Sweden.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Åsen
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