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Squalicorax yangaensis
Taxonomy
Corax yangaensis was named by Dartevelle and Casier (1943). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lac Yanga, which is in a Santonian/Campanian carbonate limestone in Angola.
It was recombined as Microanacorax yangaensis by Glikman (1980); it was recombined as Squalicorax yangaensis by Antunes and Cappetta (2002), Bourdon et al. (2011), Cicimurri et al. (2014), Schubert et al. (2017), Salama et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Microanacorax yangaensis by Glikman (1980); it was recombined as Squalicorax yangaensis by Antunes and Cappetta (2002), Bourdon et al. (2011), Cicimurri et al. (2014), Schubert et al. (2017), Salama et al. (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by M. Clapham on 2020-09-03; modified by M. Clapham on 2025-09-16
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Corax yangaensis Dartevelle and Casier p. 96 figs. Pl 1, figs 14-29 |
| 1980 | Microanacorax yangaensis Glikman p. 115 |
| 2002 | Squalicorax yangaensis Antunes and Cappetta p. 118 figs. Pl 7, figs 2-4 |
| 2011 | Squalicorax yangaensis Bourdon et al. p. 17 figs. 10G,H, 11A-G |
| 2014 | Squalicorax yangaensis Cicimurri et al. p. 16 figs. 11A-H |
| 2017 | Squalicorax yangaensis Schubert et al. p. 13 figs. 5.6-5.13 |
| 2021 | Squalicorax yangaensis Salama et al. p. 3058 figs. 3c,g, 4c |
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†Squalicorax yangaensis Dartevelle and Casier 1943
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available