†Echinorhinus lapaoi Antunes and Cappetta 2002 (elasmobranch)
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Chondrichthyes - Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae
Full reference: M. T. Antunes and H. Cappetta. 2002. Sélaciens du Crétacé (Albien-Maastrichtien) d'Angola. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 264:85-146
Belongs to Echinorhinus according to S. Bogan and F. L. Agnolín 2022
See also Antunes and Cappetta 2002 and Cappetta et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Echinorhinus australis, Echinorhinus blakei, Echinorhinus eyrensis, Echinorhinus maremagnum, Echinorhinus pozzii, Echinorhinus priscus, Echinorhinus richiardii, Echinorhinus schoenfeldi, Echinorhinus spinosus, Echinorhinus vielhus, Echinorhinus wadanohanaensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Quimbala beach (Cretaceous of Angola)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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