Biology:Ctenacanthidae
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Short description: Prehistoric family of cartilaginous fishes
Ctenacanthidae | |
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Fossil of Ctenacanthus major | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | †Ctenacanthiformes |
Superfamily: | †Ctenacanthoidea |
Family: | †Ctenacanthidae Dean, 1909[1] |
Type genus | |
†Ctenacanthus Agassiz, 1837
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Genera | |
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Ctenacanthidae is an extinct family of prehistoric elasmobranchs in the order Ctenacanthiformes.[2] Species of the different genera are found in strata ranging from Devonian to Cretaceous,[3] with a worldwide distribution.
References
- ↑ B. Dean, 1909, Studies on fossil fishes (sharks, chimaeroids and arthrodires. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Part V, v 9: 211–287
- ↑ "Ctenacanthidae". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=124923.
- ↑ Feichtinger, Iris; Engelbrecht, Andrea; Lukeneder, Alexander; Kriwet, Jürgen (2020-07-02). "New chondrichthyans characterised by cladodont-like tooth morphologies from the Early Cretaceous of Austria, with remarks on the microstructural diversity of enameloid". Historical Biology 32 (6): 823–836. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1539971. ISSN 0891-2963. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2018.1539971.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q23991137 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenacanthidae.
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