Pseudodalatias

Pseudodalatias is an extinct genus of squaliform shark which existed in England, Italy and Spain during the Triassic period.[1] It is placed in the monotypic family Pseudodalatiidae, and contains the two species Pseudodalatias barnstonensis and Pseudodalatias henarejensis.

Pseudodalatias
Temporal range:
Fossil of Pseudodalatias barnstonensis
Scientific classification
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Pseudodalatiidae

Reif, 1978
Genus:
Pseudodalatias

Reif, 1978
Species
  • Pseudodalatias barnstonensis (Sykes, 1971)
  • Pseudodalatias henarejensis Botella et al., 2009

References

  1. Héctor Botella; Pablo Plasencia; Ana Marquez-Aliaga; Gilles Cuny; Markus Dorka (2009). "Pseudodalatias henarejensis nov. sp. a new pseudodalatiid (Elasmobranchii) from the Middle Triassic of Spain". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (4): 1006–1012. doi:10.1671/039.029.0425. S2CID 84953931.

A.TINTORI (1980) Teeth of the selachian genus Pseudodalatias Sykes, 1971 from the Norian (Upper Triassic) of Lombardy. Riv.It.Paleont.Strat., v.86(1), 19–30, Milano


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