Ctenacanthoidea
Appearance
Ctenacanthoidea Temporal range: Emsian—Valanginian
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Ctenacanthus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | †Ctenacanthiformes |
Superfamily: | †Ctenacanthoidea Zangerl, 1981 |
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Ctenacanthoidea is an extinct superfamily of prehistoric sharks. These nectonic carnivores of actively mobile appeared 407 Ma ago, and managed to survive until the early Cretaceous.[2] Miocene record, Wodnika ocoyae is later considered as concretion.[3] Its distribution is practically worldwide.[4]
References
- ^ Michael E. Williams (1998). "A new specimen of Tamiobatis vetustus (Chondrichthyes, Ctenacanthoidea) from the Late Devonian Cleveland Shale of Ohio". Vertebrate Paleontology. 18 (2): 251–260. doi:10.1080/02724634.1998.10011054.
- ^ 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. S2CID 92392461.
- ^ Jordan, D.S.; Hannibal, H. (1923). "Fossil sharks and rays of the Pacific slope of North America" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.
- ^ S. Stamberg (2001). "Fin spine of a ctenacanthoid shark (Elasmobranchii, Ctenacanthoidea) from the upper Stephanian of the Krkonoše Piedmont Basin (Bohemia)". 76 (2): 141–148.
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