Archaeoscyllium muftium Thies 1983 (carpet shark)

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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