Centrophorus sp.

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 31

Centrophorus sp.

Tooth type: Cutting-clutching.

The Centrophorus teeth from the OMM were sometimes identified as belonging to Centrophorus cf. granulosus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Pfeil, 1991; Vialle et al., 2011; Pollerspöck and Beaury, 2014; Pollerspöck et al., 2022). Centrophorus granulosus is a recent species, which feeds mainly on bony fishes and cephalopods (Cortés, 1999), has a TL of 4.1 (Cortés, 1999), and lives in depths from 50 to 1500 m, mostly deeper than 600 m (Ebert et al., 2021).