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Orthacodontidae

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Orthacodontidae
Temporal range: Callovian–Selandian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Family: Orthacodontidae
Glikman, 1957
Genera

Orthacodontidae is an extinct family of sharks in the order Synechodontiformes. It contains twelve species within three genera. Some authors included it into Hexanchiformes or Lamniformes.[1]

Species

References

  1. ^ Rees, J. (2010). Neoselachian sharks from the Callovian-Oxfordian (Jurassic) of Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie Region, southern Poland. Palaeontology, 53 (4): 887-902. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00967.x