Fredipristis Feichtinger et al. 2022 (shark)

Chondrichthyes - Squaliformes

Full reference: I. Feichtinger, J. Pollerspöck, M. Harzhauser, G. Auer, S., M. Kranner, and G. Guinot. 2022. Shifts in composition of northern Tethyan elasmobranch assemblages during the last millennia of the Cretaceous. Cretaceous Research 142(105414)

Parent taxon: Squaliformes according to I. Feichtinger et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Centrophoridae, Centropterus, Dalatiidae, Dalatioidea, Etmopteridae, Gibbechinorhinus, Oxynotidae, Paraechinorhinus, Pseudoechinorhinus, Scymnorhinidae, Somniosidae, Squalidae, Squalogaleus

Subtaxa: Fredipristis eximia

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Type: Fredipristis eximia

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Waidach, near Nussdorf, horizon 7 (Cretaceous of Austria)

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