Eorhincodon
| Eorhincodon Temporal range: Late Eocene
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| Archaeolamna and E.tianshanensis | |
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| Family: | J. P. Müller and Henle, 1839
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| Genus: | Eorhincodon Li, 1997[1]
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| Species: | E. tianshanensis
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| Eorhincodon tianshanensis | |
Eorhincodon is an extinct genus of whale shark from the Late Eocene of what is now the Tarim Basin of Inner Mongolia, China. The species E. casei, from Late Cretaceous Russian marine strata, was transferred to the genus Pseudomegachasma in 2015.[2] With the removal of E. casei, Eorhincodon only contains the type species, E. tianshanensis.
References
- ^ Li, G.-Q. (1997) Elasmobranchs from the Lower Tertiary of the western Tarim Basin, China, and their biostratigraphic significance. Palaeoworld, 7: 107-136, 13 fig., 2 tabl. [1]
- ^ Shimada, Kenshu, et al. "A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35.5 (2015): e981335. [2]