Palaeotriakis
| Palaeotriakis[1] Temporal range: Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Triakidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeotriakis |
Paleotriakis is a genus of ground sharks that lived 70 - 64 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period to early Paleocene[2] of Lebanon and Sweden.[3]
Species[]
There are two known species.[4]
- Palaeotriakis curtirostris (Davis, 1887)
- Palaeotriakis subserratus (Underwood & Ward, 2008)
References[]
- ^ "Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Euselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of France and the UK".
- ^ "Palaeotriakis subserratus". Shark-References. World Wide Web electronic publication. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "Fossilworks".
- ^ "Extinct valid shark reference".
Categories:
- Prehistoric shark genera
- Triakidae