Acanthorhina Temporal range: | |
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Fossil and skeletal reconstruction of A. jaekeli | |
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Life restoration of A. jaekeli, with the body reconstructed after Chimaeropsis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Holocephali |
Order: | Chimaeriformes |
Family: | † Myriacanthidae |
Genus: | † Acanthorhina |
Species: | †A. jaekeli |
Binomial name | |
†Acanthorhina jaekeli Fraas, 1910 |
Acanthorhina is an extinct genus of holocephalan cartilaginous fish 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]