Somniosus gonzalezi
| Somniosus gonzalezi Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Somniosus |
| Species: | S. gonzalezi
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| Somniosus gonzalezi Welton and Goedert 2016
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Somniosus gonzalezi is an extinct species of sleeper shark that lived from 28.4 to 23.03 million years ago in the Oligocene epoch. A fossil was found in the Western Washington state.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Fossilworks: Somniosus gonzalezi". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
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