Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Rhinocodontidae
Full reference: J. Herman. 1974. Compléments paléoichthyologiques à la faune éocène de la Belgique. 1. Palaeorhincodon, genre nouveau de l'Eocène belge. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie 83:7-13
Belongs to Palaeorhincodon according to S. Adnet 2006
See also Bor 1985, Herman 1974 and Landau et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Palaeorhincodon daouii, Palaeorhincodon dartevellei, Palaeorhincodon fialhoi
Type specimen: CGH 88E129-1, a tooth. Its type locality is 88 E 129, Woluwe sand pit, which is in a Lutetian marine sandstone in the Brussels Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (4 collections), France (4), the Netherlands (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (1: Virginia), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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