Orectoloboides
Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes
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Orectoloboides is an extinct genus of wobbegong sharks (family Orectolobidae). It was described by Cappetta in 1977. A new species, O. angulatus, was described from the Cenomanian age of Canada by Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa in 2010.[1]
| Orectoloboides Temporal range: Cenomanian | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Order: | Orectolobiformes |
| Family: | Orectolobidae |
| Genus: | †Orectoloboides Cappetta, 1977 |
Species
- Orectoloboides parvulus (Dalinkevicius, 1935)
- Orectoloboides multistriatus Werner, 1989
- Orectoloboides reyndersi Adnet, 2006
- Orectoloboides angulatus Underwood & Cumbaa, 2010
- Orectoloboides gijseni Herman & Van Den Eeckhaut, 2010[2]
Two species formerly assigned to this genus, O. glashoffi Thies, 1981 and O. pattersoni Thies, 1983, were transferred to the separate genus Ornatoscyllium by Underwood & Ward (2004).[3]
