Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes - Somniosidae
Full reference: H. Cappetta, K. Morrison, and S. Adnet. 2019. A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages. Historical Biology 33:1121-1182
Belongs to Rhinoscymnus according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019
Sister taxon: Rhinoscymnus viridiadamas
Type specimen: RBCM P1308, a tooth. Its type locality is HS MANN, Hanging Sheep site at Manning Point, Hornby Island, which is in a Campanian submarine fan shale in the Northumberland Formation of Canada.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at HS MANN, Hanging Sheep site at Manning Point, Hornby Island
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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