Duffinselache Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Division: | Selachii |
Genus: | † Duffinselache Andreev & Cuny, 2012 |
Species: | †D. holwellensis |
Binomial name | |
†Duffinselache holwellensis (Duffin, 1998) | |
Synonyms | |
†Polyacrodus holwellensiDuffin, 1998 |
Duffinselache (Duffin's shark) is an extinct genus of basal shark elasmobranchii cartilaginous fish, known from a single species, Duffinselache holwellensis, collected from the Late Triassic (Rhaetian stage) of England. [1] It was first named by Duffin in 1998 as a species of Polyacrodus . Plamen S. Andreev and Gilles Cuny in 2012 reassigned it to a new genus as its type species, Polyacrodus holwellensis. [2]