Parascylloides turnerae Thies et al. 2014 (elasmobranch)

Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes

Full reference: D. Thies, J. Vespermann, and J. Solcher. 2014. Two new neoselachian sharks (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii, Synechodontiformes) from the Rhaetian (Late Triassic) of Europe. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaeozoology - Stratigraphy 303:137-167

Belongs to Parascylloides according to T. P. Vida et al. 2025

See also de Lange et al. 2023 and Thies et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NKP 3972, a tooth. Its type locality is Barnstone railway cutting, which is in a Rhaetian coastal siliciclastic in the Westbury Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Germany (3 collections), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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