Alopias subexigua
| Alopias subexigua Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Superorder: | Galeomorphi |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Family: | Alopiidae |
| Genus: | Alopias |
| Species: | A. subexigua |
| Binomial name | |
| Alopias subexigua Darteville & Casier, 1959 | |
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Alopias subexigua is extinct species of thresher shark, that lived in the Eocene to Miocene. It is known only from teeth. Alopias subexigua was discovered in North America, in California.[1]
References
- ^ Guinot, G., Condamine (2019). "Climate cooling and clade competition likely drove the decline of lamniform sharks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116 (41): 20584–20590. doi:10.1073/pnas.1902693116. PMC 6789557. PMID 31548392.