Acanthorhina

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Acanthorhina
Temporal range: Toarcian
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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
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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]

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Acanthorhina". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  2. Fraas, E. (1910), Chimäridenreste aus dem oberen Lias von Holzmaden. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg, 66: 55–63
  3. 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.