†Archaeoscyllium muftium Thies 1983 (carpet shark)
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Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes
Alternative combinations: Protospinax muftius, Pseudospinax muftius
Full reference: D. Thies. 1983. Jurazeitliche Neoselachier aus Deutschland und S-England (Jurassic neoselachians from German and S-England). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 58:1-116
Belongs to Archaeoscyllium according to A. Begat et al. 2025
See also Thies 1983 and Underwood and Mitchell 1999
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SMF 7112, a set of teeth. Its type locality is Rookery Pit, London Brick Company, Stewartby, which is in a Callovian marine siltstone in the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Rookery Pit, London Brick Company, Stewartby
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