Biology:Acmoniodus

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Short description: Extinct genus of cartilaginous fish


Acmoniodus
Temporal range: Frasnian
Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (1918) (20453950251).jpg
Acmoniodus clarkei type specimen (Bottom)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Order:
Copodontiformes
Family:
Incertae sedis
Genus:
Acmoniodus

Hussakof & Bryant, 1918

Acmoniodus is a poorly known extinct genus of Holocephalian fish from the Devonian period. It is known only by a singular species described from the lower Frasnian-aged Geneseo Shale of New York (state): A. clarkei.[1][2]

References

  1. Sallan, Lauren; Coates, Michael. Supporting Information Appendix for The End-devonian Extinction And A Bottleneck In The Early Evolution Of Modern Jawed Vertebrates. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2010/05/05/0914000107.DCSupplemental/sapp.pdf. 
  2. HUSSAKOF, L. & BRYANT, W.L. (1918). Catalog of the fossil fishes in the Museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 12: 1–346

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