{{Short description|Extinct genus of sharks}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|93.9|66.0|Turonian-Maastrichtian}} | taxon = Galeocorax | authority = Cappetta, 2012<ref name="Cappetta 2012">{{cite book |last=Cappetta |first=H. |date=2012 |title=Handbook of Paleoichthyology. Volume 3E. Chondrichthyes. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii: Teeth. |location=Munich |publisher=Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil |isbn=978-3-89937-148-2}}</ref> | type_species = †'''''Galeocorax jaekeli''''' | type_species_authority = (Woodward, 1895)<ref name="Woodward 1895">{{cite journal|last=Woodward |first=A.S. |year=1895 |title=Note on a supposed tooth of ''Galeocerdo'' from the English Chalk |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |series=Series 6 |volume=15 |issue=85 |pages=4–5 |doi=10.1080/00222939508677842 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54281#page/18/mode/1up}}</ref> | synonyms = {{collapsible list|title=Genus synonymy| *''Paracorax'' <br/><small>Cappetta, 1977 (preoccupied by ''Paracorax'' Lambrecht, 1933)<ref name="Cappetta 1977">{{cite journal|last=Cappetta |first=H. |year=1977 |title= Observations sur quelques Selaciens du Cretace superieur d'Angleterre avec la description d'un genre nouveau |journal=Geobios |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=479–485 |doi=10.1016/S0016-6995(77)80029-6 |bibcode=1977Geobi..10..479C }}</ref><ref name="Lambrecht 1933">{{cite book |last=Lambrecht |first=K. |date=1933 |title=Handbuch der Palaeornithologie |location=Berlin |publisher=Gebrüder Borntraeger |url=http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/N10886855.pdf }}</ref></small> *''Eugaleocerdo'' <br/><small>Herman & Van Waes, 2012<ref name="Herman & Van Waes 2012">{{cite journal |last1=Herman |first1=J. |last2=Van Waes |first2=H. |date=2012 |title= Observations diverses et déductions concernant l'evolution et la systématique de quelques Euselachii, Neoselachii et Batoidei (Pisces - Elasmobranchii), actuels et fossiles. |journal=Géominpal Belgica |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=1–89 |url=http://geominpal.be/Geominpal%20Belgica%202/Geominpal%20Belgica%202.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217061123/http://geominpal.be/Geominpal%20Belgica%202/Geominpal%20Belgica%202.pdf |archive-date=2015-02-17 }}</ref><ref name="Greenfield 2022">{{cite journal |last=Greenfield |first=T. |date=2022 |title=Determination of priority between ''Galeocorax'' Cappetta, 2012 and ''Eugaleocerdo'' Herman & Van Waes, 2012 (Galeomorphii ''incerti ordinis'', Pseudocoracidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=5162 |issue=3 |pages=299–300 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5162.3.7|pmid=36095504 }}</ref></small> }} {{collapsible list|title=Species synonymy| * ''Galeocerdo jaekeli'' <br/><small>Woodward, 1895</small> * ''Corax jaekeli'' <br/><small>(Woodward, 1895)</small> * ''Paracorax jaekeli'' <br/><small>(Woodward, 1895)</small> * ''Eugaleocerdo jaekeli'' <br/><small>(Woodward, 1895)</small> * ''Paracorax unilateralis'' <br/><small>Averianov, 1997</small><ref name="Averianov 1997">{{cite journal|last=Averianov |first=A.O. |year=1997 |title=Additions to the selachian fauna of the Russian Cretaceous. 2. A new species of ''Paracorax'' Cappetta, 1977 (Chondrichthyes: Anacoracidae) |journal=Zoosystematica Rossica |volume=6 |issue=1/2 |pages=315–316 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235805876}}</ref> }} }} '''''Galeocorax''''' is an extinct genus of mackerel sharks that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It contains a single valid species, '''''G. jaekeli''''', that has been found in Europe and North America.<ref name="Cappetta 2012"/>
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Category:Cretaceous sharks Category:Cretaceous fish of Europe Category:Cretaceous fish of North America Category:Lamniformes Category:Prehistoric shark genera Category:Monotypic prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera
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