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Table 1 Fossil selachians recovered in Mazan and comparison with the other Middle Miocene localities of Vaucluse

From: A new shark and ray fauna from the Middle Miocene of Mazan, Vaucluse (southern France) and its importance in interpreting the paleoenvironment of marine deposits in the southern Rhodanian Basin

 

(4) Saint Didier

(2) Caumont

(1) Bonpas

(3) Mazan

(5) Cabrières d’Aigues

Habitat of living representatives

Paraheptranchias repens

  

X

X

 

27–1,000*

Hexanchus sp.

   

X

X

0–1,875

Centrophorus aff. granulosus

 

X

X

X

X

50–1,440

Deania aff. calceus

X

X

X

X

 

70–1,470

Isistius triangulus

 

X

X

X

X

0–3,500

“Oligodalatias” sp.

  

X

X

 

0–4,000*

Squaliolus schaubi

 

X

X

X

 

200–2,000

Pristiophorus suevicus

  

X

X

X

100–952

Squatina subserrata

  

X

X

X

0–494

Alopias aff. superciliosus

  

X

X

X

0–732

Cetorhinus parvus

   

X

X

0–904

Carcharoides catticus

   

X

 

0–1,000*

Cosmopolitodus hastalis

   

X

X

0–1,300*

Mitsukurina lineata

X

  

X

 

270–960

Carcharias aff. acutissima

  

X

X

X

0–191

Carcharias sternbergensis

  

X

X

 

0–191

Carcharhinus priscus

   

X

X

0–430

Galeocerdo anduncus

  

X

X

X

0–140

Isogomphodon acuarius

   

X

X

4–40

Rhizoprionodon ficheuri

   

X

X

1–100

Paragaleus aff. pulchellus

   

X

X

0–100

Pachyscyllium aff. dachiardii

   

X

X

0–>2,000*

Scyliorhinus cf. joleaudi

   

X

X

0–754

Sphyrna arambourgi

   

X

 

0–275

Galeorhinus sp.

   

X

 

2–471

Rhynchobatus pristinus

  

X

X

X

0–65

Raja gentili

  

X

X

X

3–1,000

Dasyatis probsti

   

X

X

0-480

Dasyatis rugosa

   

X

X

0–480

Taeniura aff. cavernosa

   

X

 

0–500

Mobula pectinata

   

X

 

0–100

Aetobatus arcuatus

  

X

X

X

0–100

Myliobatidae indet.

  

X

X

X

0–200

Plesiobatis sp.

  

X

X

 

44–680

  1. For Caumont, Bonpas and Saint-Didier, Ledoux, 1972; for Bonpas, Cappetta et al. 1967; for Cabrières d’Aigues, Brisswalter, 2009
  2. The maximal depth range (in meter) of living representatives (species or genus) is compiled from Compagno et al. 2005; Kyne and Simpfendorfer 2007 and online data available at www.fishbase.org. * indicates that maximal depth range is that of the family