†Casieria casieri Cappetta 1976 (cat shark)
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Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Alternative combination: Scyliorhinus casieri
Full reference: H. Cappetta. 1976. Sélaciens nouveaux du London Clay de l'Essex (Yprésien du bassin de Londres). Geobios 9:551-575
Belongs to Casieria according to S. Adnet 2006
See also Bor 1985 and Cappetta 1976
Sister taxon: Casieria maghrebiana
Type specimen: Its type locality is Burnham on Crouch, which is in a Ypresian marine claystone in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (4 collections), the Netherlands (4), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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