Pristiophorus pricei Cappetta et al. 2019 (saw shark)

Chondrichthyes - Pristiophoriformes - Pristiophoridae

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 Pristiophorus according to H. Cappetta et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Pristiophorus cirratus, Pristiophorus japonicus, Pristiophorus lacipidinensis, Pristiophorus laevis, Pristiophorus lanceolata, Pristiophorus lanceolatus, Pristiophorus lineatus, Pristiophorus napierensis, Pristiophorus nudipinnis, Pristiophorus schroederi, Pristiophorus smithi, Pristiophorus striatus, Pristiophorus suevicus, Pristiophorus tumidens

Type specimen: RBCM P1257, a tooth. Its type locality is SHU-COL, Collishaw site, Hornby Island, which is in a Campanian submarine fan shale in the Northumberland Formation of Canada.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at SHU-COL, Collishaw site, Hornby Island

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