06432 - Great Collection of 3 Ginglymostoma sp Nurse Shark Teeth Paleocene
06432 - Great Collection of 3 Ginglymostoma sp Nurse Shark Teeth Paleocene 06432 - Great Collection of 3 Ginglymostoma sp Nurse Shark Teeth Paleocene 06432 - Great Collection of 3 Ginglymostoma sp Nurse Shark Teeth Paleocene 06432 - Great Collection of 3 Ginglymostoma sp Nurse Shark Teeth Paleocene 06432 - Great Collection of 3 Ginglymostoma sp Nurse Shark Teeth Paleocene 06432 - Great Collection of 3 Ginglymostoma sp Nurse Shark Teeth Paleocene

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06432 - Great Collection of 3 Ginglymostoma sp Nurse Shark Teeth Paleocene

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Species
Ginglymostoma sp, Müller and Henle (1838) - Nurse shark
Age
Paleocene, Thanetian stage, (~56 Million Years)
Location
Oued Zem, Morocco
Formation
Ouled Abdoun Basin (Phosphate beds)
Size
9.3 mm   •    in
Weight
1 g   •    oz
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Description
Ginglymostoma sp, Müller and Henle 1838 (nurse shark)
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae


Synonym: Acrodobatis Leidy 1877 (taxon 124936)

Parent taxon: Ginglymostomatidae according to R. Tabuce et al. 2005

See also Case and Schwimmer 1988, Jordan 1963, Leriche 1942, Purdy et al. 2001, Sepkoski 2002, Thurmond and Jones 1981, White 1926 and Woodward 1889

Sister taxa: Cantioscyllium, Nebrius, Plicatoscyllium, Protoginglymostoma

Subtaxa: Ginglymostoma angolense, Ginglymostoma blankenhorni, Ginglymostoma delfortriei, Ginglymostoma globidens, Ginglymostoma minutum, Ginglymostoma obliquum, Ginglymostoma parvula, Ginglymostoma subafricanum, Ginglymostoma ypresiensis.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Environments: marine, coastal, marginal marine, estuary/bay, terrestrial, deep subtidal, deltaic, fluvial, lagoonal, shoreface, offshore.

Age range: 105.3 to 0.012 Ma

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (Florida, Georgia)

• Pliocene of Mexico

• Miocene of Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Panama, Peru, United States (Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela.

• Oligocene of United States (South Carolina)

• Eocene of Morocco , Nigeria, Togo , United States ( Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India, Saudi Arabia

• Paleocene of India, Saudi Arabia , United States ( Mississippi)

• Cretaceous of Israel, Kazakhstan , Mexico , Niger, United States ( Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Wyoming)

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