Palaeotriakis

Palaeotriakis
Temporal range: Turonian
Paratriakis curtirostris
Paratriakis curtirostris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Division: Selachii
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Triakidae
Genus: †Palaeotriakis
Guinot, Underwood, Cappetta & Ward, 2013

Paleotriakis is a genus of ground sharks that lived in the Late Cretaceous period of France.

Species

This genus includes two species that are originally described as species of Paratriakis.

However, for P. curtirostris, later studies still support its classification as a species of Paratriakis.

References

  1. ↑ Guinot, Guillaume; Underwood, Charlie J.; Cappetta, Henri; Ward, David J. (2013). "Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Euselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of France and the UK". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (6): 589–671. Bibcode:2013JSPal..11..589G. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.767286. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 84892884.
  2. ↑ Adolfssen, Jan S.; Ward, David J. (2014). López-Arbarello, Adriana (ed.). "Crossing the boundary: an elasmobranch fauna from Stevns Klint, Denmark". Palaeontology. 57 (3): 591–629. Bibcode:2014Palgy..57..591A. doi:10.1111/pala.12079. ISSN 0031-0239.
  3. ↑ Adolfssen, Jan S.; Milàn, Jesper; Friedman, Matt (2017-02-15). "Review of the Danian vertebrate fauna of southern Scandinavia". Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. 65: 1–23. doi:10.37570/bgsd-2017-65-01. ISSN 2245-7070.