Somniosus gonzalezi is an extinct species of sleeper shark that lived during the Oligocene epoch Rupelian to Chattian stages. The species was described from teeth fossils found in the Pysht Formation of Washington states Olympic Peninsula.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Somniosus |
| Species: | †S. gonzalezi
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| †Somniosus gonzalezi Welton & Goedert, 2016
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References edit
- ^ "Fossilworks: Somniosus gonzalezi". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
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