Somniosus gonzalezi

Somniosus gonzalezi is an extinct species of sleeper shark that lived from 28.4 to 23.03 million years ago in the Oligocene epoch. A fossil was found in the Western Washington state.[1]

Somniosus gonzalezi
Temporal range: 28.4โ€“23.03 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Somniosidae
Genus: Somniosus
Species:
S. gonzalezi
Binomial name
Somniosus gonzalezi
Welton and Goedert 2016

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Somniosus gonzalezi". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
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