Alopias subexigua
Appearance
Alopias subexigua Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Lamniformes |
Family: | Alopiidae |
Genus: | Alopias |
Species: | A. subexigua
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Binomial name | |
Alopias subexigua (Darteville & Casier, 1959)
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Alopias subexigua is extinct species of thresher sharks, that lived in the Eocene to Miocene. It is known only from teeth. Alopias subexigua was discovered in North America, in California.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Guinot, G., Condamine. "Climate cooling and clade competition likely drove the decline of lamniform sharks". Climate cooling and clade competition likely drove the decline of lamniform sharks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2019. 8288.
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