A new species of squalid shark from the Lower Paleocene of the Saratov Province, Russia (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae)

A.O. Averianov & L.S. Glickman

Abstract. Centrophoroides volgensis sp. n. from the Lower Paleocene (Danian) deposits near Lysye Gory village in Saratov Prov. (Russia) is described. It is characterized by the relatively large size of teeth, relatively high main cusp and widened basement of the apron on tooth crowns.

Zoosystematica Rossica, 1995, 4(2): 317–319 ▪ Published in print 11 October 1996

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