Named By: | Henri Cappetta in 1987 |
Time Period: | Late Cretaceous |
Location: | North America. Europe. North Africa |
Size: | S. falcatus known to at least be 1.9 meters long. Estimates from larger tooth specimens indicates up to 5 meters long |
Diet: | unavailable |
Fossil(s): | Mostly teeth, one articulated skeleton |
Classification: | | Chordata | Chondrichthyes | Lamniformes | Anacoracidae | |
Squalicorax is a genus of extinct lamniform shark known to have lived during the Cretaceous period.