Palaeotriakis

Paleotriakis is a genus of ground sharks that lived 70 - 64 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period to early Paleocene[2] of Lebanon and Sweden.[3]

Palaeotriakis[1]
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene, 70โ€“64 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Triakidae
Genus: โ€ Palaeotriakis

Species

There are two known species.[4]

  • Palaeotriakis curtirostris (Davis, 1887)
  • Palaeotriakis subserratus (Underwood & Ward, 2008)

References
  1. "Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Euselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of France and the UK".
  2. "Palaeotriakis subserratus". Shark-References. World Wide Web electronic publication. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  3. "Fossilworks".
  4. "Extinct valid shark reference".
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