Palaeobates
| Palaeobates Temporal range:
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| Early Triassic Palaeobates polaris from Svalbard - picture taken at Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zurich | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Hybodontiformes |
| Family: | †Acrodontidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeobates Meyer, 1849 |
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| †Acrodus angustissimus Agassiz, 1834
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Palaeobates is an extinct genus of prehistoric elasmobranch sharks in the order Hybodontiformes. It lived during the Triassic period.[1] Palaeobates had a grinding-type dentition, which it used to crush hard-shelled prey. The teeth exhibit an orthodont histology.
See also
References
- ^ Romano, Carlo; Brinkmann, Winand (December 2010). "A new specimen of the hybodont shark Palaeobates polaris with threedimensionally preserved Meckel's cartilage from the Smithian (Early Triassic) of Spitsbergen". Journal of Paleontology. 30 (6): 1673–1683. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521962.
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