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The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is a rare species of deep-sea shark. Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old. This pink-skinned animal has a distinctive profile with an elongated, flat snout, and highly protrusible jaws containing ...
Mitsukurinidae is a family of sharks with one living genus, Mitsukurina, and four fossil genera: Anomotodon, Protoscapanorhynchus, Scapanorhynchus, and Woellsteinia, [1] though some taxonomists consider Scapanorhynchus to be a synonym of Mitsukurina. [2] [3] The only known living species is the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni.
Mitsukurina is a genus of mackerel shark in the family Mitsukurinidae. It contains one extant species, the goblin shark (M. owstoni) and more extinct species. The genus was described by American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan in 1898 and named in honour of Kakichi Mitsukuri. [1]
When the jaws are retracted, the shark resembles a grey nurse shark with an unusually long nose. Goblin sharks include one living genus and three extinct genera. [18] The only known living species is Mitsukurina owstoni. Odontaspididae: Sand sharks: 2 3
Scapanorhynchus texanus, Menuha Formation (Upper Cretaceous), southern Israel. Near-complete fossil of S. lewisii, under special lighting. Scapanorhynchus (from Greek: σκάφιου scaphion, 'shovel' and Greek: ῥύγχος rhynchos 'snout') [3] is an extinct genus of goblin shark that lived during the Cretaceous period, from the Aptian to the end of the Maastrichtian.
The goblin shark was pregnant with six babies, or pups, the museum said in a June 15 Facebook post. The pups were between about 3.9 and 4.2 feet long and each weighed about 8 pounds.
The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is a rare species of deep-sea shark. Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old. This pink-skinned animal has a distinctive profile with an elongated, flat snout, and highly protrusible jaws containing ...
Scapanorhynchus is an extinct genus of mitsukurinid shark that lived from the early Cretaceous until possibly the Miocene if S. subulatus is a and not a sand shark. Their extreme similarities to the living goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, lead some experts to consider reclassifying it as Scapanorhynchus owstoni. †Serratolamna †S. serrata