Abstract

Abstract Three elasmobranch genera and species, Megascyliorhinus cooperi (Cappetta & Ward), Centrophorus squamosus (Bonnaterre), and Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre) are recorded from the New Zealand fossil record for the first time. M. cooperi is also identified for the first time from the Australian Miocene. All 3 taxa have long Stratigraphic ranges in New Zealand. M. cooperi extends from the Oligocene to late Pleistocene; C. squamosus is known from either a Late Cretaceous or an Early Paleocene record and extends to the Late Pliocene, and D. licha ranges from Late Eocene to Late Pliocene.

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