Rhinoscymnus clarki Cappetta et al. 2019 (sleeper shark)

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

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