Protocentrophorus

Protocentrophorus
Temporal range: 99–72 Ma Cenomanian to Campanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Squalidae
Genus: †Protocentrophorus
Adnet et al. 2008
Type species
†Centrophorus balticus
Dalinkevičius, 1935
Other species
  • †Protocentrophorus steviae Cappetta et al. 2019[1]

Protocentrophorus is a genus of was a genus of dogfish shark that existed during the Cretaceous.[2] Fossils have been found in the Tauragė County of Lithuania and British Columbia in Canada.[3] Known from teeth, they were originally assigned to the genus Centrophorus.

While some classify Protocentrophorus as belonging to the family Squalidae, phylogenetic tests indicate that it might be a member of the Centrophoridae.[4]

  1. ^ Cappetta, Henri; Morrison, Kurt; Adnet, Sylvain (2021-08-03). "A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages". Historical Biology. 33 (8): 1121–1182. Bibcode:2021HBio...33.1121C. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1681421. ISSN 0891-2963.
  2. ^ Adnet, Sylvain; Cappetta, Henri; Mertiniene, Romualda (2008-08-01). "Re-evaluation of squaloid shark records from the Albian and Cenomanian of Lithuania". Cretaceous Research. 29 (4): 711–722. Bibcode:2008CrRes..29..711A. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.01.014. ISSN 0195-6671.
  3. ^ "†Acanthidium Lowe 1839 (dogfish shark)". PBDB.org.
  4. ^ Feichtinger, I.; Guinot, G.; Straube, N.; Harzhauser, M.; Auer, G.; Ćorić, S.; Kranner, M.; Schellhorn, S.; Ladwig, J.; Thies, D.; Pollerspöck, J. (December 2022). "Revision of the Cretaceous shark Protoxynotus (Chondrichthyes, Squaliformes) and early evolution of somniosid sharks". Cretaceous Research. 140: 105331. Bibcode:2022CrRes.14005331F. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105331. hdl:11250/3061165. ISSN 0195-6671.