Eoptolamna

Eoptolamna is an extinct genus of mackerel shark from the Cretaceous Period.[1] It currently holds two species. E. eccentrolopha is described from the Barremian and Albian Artoles Formation of Spain.[2] E. supracretacea is known from the lower Santonian to middle Campanian of the Anglo-Parisian Basin.[3]

Eoptolamna
Temporal range: Barremian–Campanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Order:
Lamniformes
Family:
Eoptolamnidae
Genus:
Eoptolamna

Kriwet et al., 2008
Type species
Eoptolamna eccentrolopha
Kriwet et al., 2008
Species
  • E. eccentrolopha
  • E. supracretacea

References
  1. "Fossilworks: Eoptolamna eccentrolopha". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  2. Kriwet, Jürgen; Klug, Stefanie; Canudo, José I.; Cuenca-Bescos, Gloria (October 2008). "A new Early Cretaceous lamniform shark (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 154 (2): 278–290. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00410.x.
  3. Guillaume Guinot, Charlie J. Underwood, Henri Cappetta & David J. Ward (2013) Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Euselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of France and the UK, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 11:6, 589-671, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2013.767286
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