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Angelshark
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Late
International Age: Tithonian
Weissjura Group
Altmühltal Formation
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Length: 36 cm
Sappenfeld
Eichstätt (District)
Bavaria (Province)
Germany
Taxonomy from Klug & Kriwet, 2012.
Alternative name: Squatina alifera
References:
Münster, G.G. (1842) Beschreibungen einiger neuen Fische in den lithographischen Schiefern von Bayern. Beiträge zur Petrefactenkunde, 5, 55–64.
Underwood, C. J. (2002): Sharks, rays and a chimaeroid from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Ringstead, southern England. – Palaeontology, 45 (2): 297–325.
Carvalho, Kriwet & Thies (2008): A systematic and anatomical revision of Late Jurassic angelsharks (Chondrichthyes: Squatinidae).
Thies, D. & Leidner, A. (2011): Sharks and guitarfishes (Elasmobranchii) from the Late Jurassic of Europe. Palaeodiversity 4: 63–184; Stuttgart.
Klug, S. and Kriwet, J. (2013): An offshore fish assemblage (Elasmobranchii, Actinopterygii) from the Late Jurassic of NE Spain. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 87(2):235-257.
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