Acanthorhina
Appearance
Acanthorhina Temporal range:
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Acanthorhina jaekeli from the Jurassic of Germany | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Holocephali |
Order: | Chimaeriformes |
Family: | Myriacanthidae |
Genus: | †Acanthorhina |
Species: | †A. jaekeli
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Binomial name | |
†Acanthorhina jaekeli Fraas, 1910
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Acanthorhina is an extinct genus of chimaera from the Toarcian age of the Jurassic period.[1] It currently contains a single species, A. jaekeli known from the Posidonia shale of Holzmaden, Germany.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fossilworks: Acanthorhina". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
- ^ Fraas, E. (1910), Chimäridenreste aus dem oberen Lias von Holzmaden. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg, 66: 55–63
- ^ Duffin, Christopher J. (Jan 1981). "The fin spine of a new holocephalan from the lower jurassic of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England". Geobios. 14 (4): 469–475. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(81)80122-2. ISSN 0016-6995.