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Squalicorax baharijensis

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae

Taxonomy
Corax baharijensis was named by Stromer (1927). Its type specimen is BSP 1912 VIII 35, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 500 m west of Gebel Maghrafe, which is in a Cenomanian marginal marine claystone in the Bahariya Formation of Egypt.

It was synonymized subjectively with Squalicorax curvatus by Shimada et al. (2006); it was recombined as Squalicorax baharijensis by Slaughter and Thurmond (1974), Werner (1989), Cappetta and Case (1999), Vullo et al. (2007) and Underwood et al. (2011).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1927Corax baharijensis Stromer p. 5 figs. Pl. 1, figs. 25-27
1974Squalicorax baharijensis Slaughter and Thurmond p. 32
1989Squalicorax baharijensis Werner p. 35 figs. Pl 14, figs 1-9; pl 15, figs 1-3; text-fig 13
1999Squalicorax baharijensis Cappetta and Case p. 12 figs. Pl 3, figs 6-9
2007Squalicorax baharijensis Vullo et al. p. 105 fig. 2D
2011Squalicorax baharijensis Underwood et al. p. 547 figs. 7A-J

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classChondrichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
infraclassEuselachii()
NeoselachiiCompagno 1977
superorderGaleomorphiiCompagno 1973
orderLamniformesBerg 1958
familyAnacoracidaeCasier 1947
genusSqualicoraxWhitley 1939
speciesbaharijensis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Squalicorax baharijensis Stromer 1927
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Diagnosis
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