Palaeospinax
Palaeospinax is an extinct genus of shark which lived from the Early Triassic to the end of the Eocene epoch. Although several species have been described, the genus is considered nomen dubium because the type-specimen of the type species, Palaeospinax priscus, lacks appropriate diagnostic characters to define the genus.[5]
| Palaeospinax Temporal range: Early Triassic-Eocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | †Synechodontiformes |
| Family: | †Palaeospinacidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeospinax Egerton, 1872[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Paleospinax priscus Agassiz 1843[2] | |
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Other species originally described as Synechodus were transferred to the genus Palidiplospinax.
References
- Mem. Geol. Surv. Unit. Kingdom, Dec. 13 [5] explan. pl. 7, pp. page(s): 3
- L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 15-16). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel 157-390
- "†Palaeospinax Egerton 1872 (elasmobranch)" (html). Fossilworks. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- Palaeospinax Egerton, 1872 in GBIF Secretariat (2017). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/4824942 on 2019-02-21.
- Klug, Stefanie; Kriwet, Jürgen (2008). "A new basal galeomorph shark (Synechodontiformes, Neoselachii) from the Early Jurassic of Europe". Naturwissenschaften. 95 (5): 443–448. Bibcode:2008NW.....95..443K. doi:10.1007/s00114-007-0341-0. PMID 18196213. S2CID 8460659.
Further reading
- Maisey, J. G. (1977). "The fossil selachian fishes Palaeospinax Egerton, 1872 and Nemacanthus Agassiz, 1837". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 60 (3): 259–273. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1977.tb01029.x.
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