Serratolamna africana Dartevelle and Casier 1943 (mackerel shark)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Serratolamnidae

Alternative combination: Lamna caraibaea africana

Full reference: E. Dartevelle and E. Casier. 1943. Les poissons fossiles du Bas-Congo et des régions voisines. Annales du Musée du Congo Belge. A - Minéralogie Géologie, Paléontologie. Série III 2(1):1-200

Belongs to Serratolamna according to R. A. Belben et al. 2017

See also Dartevelle and Casier 1943

Sister taxa: Serratolamna aschersoni, Serratolamna caraibaea, Serratolamna gafsana, Serratolamna maroccana, Serratolamna serrata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Manzadi, point 4, bed 1, which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate limestone in the Congo-Kinshasa

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the Congo-Kinshasa (1 collection), Morocco (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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