Taeniurops cavernosus (Probst, 1877)

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 : 37

Taeniurops cavernosus (Probst, 1877)

Tooth type: Crushing (female), Clutching (male).

The only recent congener, T. meyeni Müller and Henle, 1841 , is a benthic organism living between 20 and 60 m depth (Froese and Pauly, 2019). It feeds on bottom fishes, bivalves, crabs and shrimp (Compagno et al., 1989; Froese and Pauly, 2019) and has a TL of 4.2 ±0.69 (Froese and Pauly, 2019).