Eorhincodon
Eorhincodon is an extinct genus of requiem shark[2] from the Late Eocene of Xinjiang, China, originally described as a whale shark.[1] The genus was originally erected by Li (1997) to include the species Eorhincodon tianshanensis, but Nessov (1999) used the preoccupied genus in a different paleontological context to include an unrelated species, E. casei, from Late Cretaceous Russian marine strata. A new genus, Pseudomegachasma, was erected in 2015 for E. casei to be transferred into.[3]
| Eorhincodon Temporal range: Late Eocene | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Carcharhinidae |
| Genus: | †Eorhincodon Li, 1997[1] |
| Binomial name | |
| Eorhincodon 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.
- https://shark-references.com/species/listAllFossil/E
- 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.
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