Pseudodalatias

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Pseudodalatias
Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Upper Triassic
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Fossil of Pseudodalatias barnstonensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Hybodontiformes
Family: Pseudodalatiidae
Reif, 1978 [1]
Genus: Pseudodalatias
Reif, 1978 [1]
Species [2]
  • Pseudodalatias barnstonensis(Sykes, 1971)
  • Pseudodalatias henarejensisBotella et al., 2009

Pseudodalatias is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish which existed in England, Italy and Spain during the Triassic period. It is placed in the monotypic family Pseudodalatiidae, and contains the two species Pseudodalatias barnstonensis and Pseudodalatias henarejensis. It is disputed as to whether it represents a neoselachian, [3] or a hybodont. [4]

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References

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  2. https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34512
  3. Héctor Botella; Pablo Plasencia; Ana Marquez-Aliaga; Gilles Cuny; Markus Dorka (2009). "Pseudodalatias henarejensis nov. sp. a new pseudodalatiid (Elasmobranchii) from the Middle Triassic of Spain". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 29 (4): 1006–1012. Bibcode:2009JVPal..29.1006B. doi:10.1671/039.029.0425. S2CID   84953931.
  4. Diependaal, Henk J.; Reumer, Jelle W.F. (2021). "Note on the Rhaetian fish fauna from a subrosion pipe in Winterswijk (the Netherlands), with a discussion on the validity of the genus Severnichthys Storrs, 1994". Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. 100. Bibcode:2021NJGeo.100E...9D. doi: 10.1017/njg.2021.5 . ISSN   0016-7746.