Bythaelurus steurbauti Hovestadt and Hovestadt-Euler 1995 (cat shark)

Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae

Full reference: D. C. Hovestadt and M. Hovestadt-Euler. 1995. Additions to the fauna of the Boom Clay Formation of Belgium (Rupelian, Oligocene). Taxonomic adjustments on the Scyliorhinidae and Rajoidei, discovery of a dasyatid species (Pisces, Chondrichthyes) and of a curculionid species (Insecta, Coleoptera). Belgian Geological Survey, Professional Paper, Elasmobranches et Stratigraphie 278:261-282

Belongs to Bythaelurus according to D. C. Hovestadt and M. Hovestadt-Euler 1995

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IRSNB P.2642, a tooth. Its type locality is Terhagen, level 35, which is in a Rupelian marine claystone in the Boom Clay Formation of Belgium.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Belgium (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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