A new Eocene shark from the London Clay of Essex | The Palaeontological Association

20 1 Sat, 01/01/1977 - 12:00 January 195 202

CAPPETTA, H., WARD, D. J. 1977. A new Eocene shark from the London Clay of Essex. Palaeontology, 20, 1, 195–202.

H. Cappetta and D. J. Ward Teeth of a new scyliorhinid shark Megascyliorhinus cooperi gen. nov., sp. nov. from the London Clay are described and compared with M. miocaenicus (Antunes and Jonet) a Mio-Pliocene species from France, Portugal, and Tunisia, previously referred to Rhincodon. It is suggested that the genus Megascyliorhinus inhabited fairly deep water. The Palaeontological Association (Free Access)