Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Serratolamnidae
Alternative combinations: Cretolamna caraibaea, Lamna caraibaea
Full reference: M. Leriche. 1938. Contribution à l'étude des Poissons fossiles des pays riverains de la Méditerranée américaine (Venezuela, Trinité, Antilles, Mexique). Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse 51:1-42
Belongs to Serratolamna according to J. A. Schubert et al. 2017
See also Casier 1958, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Landemaine 1991, Leriche 1938 and Lewy and Cappetta 1989
Sister taxa: Serratolamna aschersoni, Serratolamna gafsana, Serratolamna koerti, Serratolamna serrata
Subtaxa: Lamna caraibaea africana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Bella Vista, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in Trinidad and Tobago
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (2 collections), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Israel (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 10 collections including 11 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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