Orectoloboides

Orectoloboides is an extinct genus of wobbegong sharks (family Orectolobidae). It was described by Cappetta in 1977. A new species, O. angulatus, was described from the Cenomanian age of Canada by Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa in 2010.^[1]

Orectoloboides Temporal range: Cenomanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Division:	Selachii
Order:	Orectolobiformes
Family:	Orectolobidae
Genus:	†Orectoloboides Cappetta, 1977

Species

• Orectoloboides parvulus (Dalinkevicius, 1935)
• Orectoloboides multistriatus Werner, 1989
• Orectoloboides reyndersi Adnet, 2006
• Orectoloboides angulatus Underwood & Cumbaa, 2010
• Orectoloboides gijseni Herman & Van Den Eeckhaut, 2010^[2]

Two species formerly assigned to this genus, O. glashoffi Thies, 1981 and O. pattersoni Thies, 1983, were transferred to the separate genus Ornatoscyllium by Underwood & Ward (2004).^[3]