Heptranchias 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 : 30

Heptranchias sp.

Tooth type: Cutting-clutching.

Only one living species is known in this genus, namely H. perlo (Bonnaterre, 1788) , which lives from 0 to 1000 m depth (Ebert et al., 2021). Cortés (1999) assigned it a TL of 4.2, mentioning bony fishes and cephalopods as staple foods.