Biology:Pachymylus
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Short description: Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | Chimaeriformes |
| Family: | Callorhynchidae |
| Genus: | †Pachymylus Woodward, 1892 |
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Pachymylus is an extinct genus of chimaera belonging to the family Callorhynchidae. The type species. P. leedsi was described by A. S. Woodward in 1892, and is known from the Middle-Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian) Oxford Clay of Peterborough, England. The type material consisted of a large mandibular tooth and two palatine teeth.[1][2] Indeterminate remains of the genus are also known from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) of France.[2]
References
- ↑ Woodward, A. Smith (1892). "III.—On some teeth of new Chimæroid fishes from the Oxford and Kimmeridge Clays of England". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 (55): 13–16. doi:10.1080/00222939208677369. https://zenodo.org/record/1835882.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Popov, Evgeny V.; Delsate, Dominique; Felten, Roland (2019-07-02). "A New Callorhinchid Genus (Holocephali, Chimaeroidei) from the Early Bajocian of Ottange-Rumelange, on the Luxembourg-French Border". Paleontological Research 23 (3): 220. doi:10.2517/2018PR021. ISSN 1342-8144. https://bioone.org/journals/paleontological-research/volume-23/issue-3/2018PR021/A-New-Callorhinchid-Genus-Holocephali-Chimaeroidei-from-the-Early-Bajocian/10.2517/2018PR021.full.
Wikidata ☰ Q107304044 entry
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