†Paraisurus amudarjensis Mertinienė et al. 1994 (mackerel shark)
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Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Paraisuridae
Full reference: R. Mertinienė, L. Nessov, and M. Nazarkin. 1994. Cretaceous sharks of the genus Paraisurus in Uzbekistan and Lithuania. Geologija 17:139-143
Belongs to Paraisurus according to R. Mertinienė et al. 1994
Sister taxa: Paraisurus compressus, Paraisurus macrorhizus
Type specimen: TsNIGR 123/12178, a tooth. Its type locality is SZB-3, Karakul Lake, which is in an Aptian marine horizon in the Sultanbobo Formation of Uzbekistan.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at SZB-3, Karakul Lake
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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