Cretoxyrhina sulukapensis Zhelezko 2000 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae

Alternative combination: Pseudoisurus sulukapensis

Full reference: V. I. Zhelezko. 2000. Evoluyutsiya zubnykh sistem akul roda Pseudoisurus Gluckman, 1957 - krupneishikh melovykh pelagicheskikh akul evrazii. Materialy po Stratigrafii i Paleontologii Urala 4:136-141

Belongs to Cretoxyrhina according to M. Siverson and J. Lindgren 2005

See also Zhelezko 2000

Sister taxa: Cretoxyrhina agassizensis, Cretoxyrhina denticulata, Cretoxyrhina mantelli, Cretoxyrhina vraconensis

Type specimen: Regional Museum of Local Lore Yekaterinburg 25982, a tooth. Its type locality is Sulukapy gorge, Mangyshlak, which is in a Turonian marine horizon in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sulukapy gorge, Mangyshlak

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