Acanthorhina

Acanthorhina
Temporal range:
Fossil and skeletal reconstruction of A. jaekeli
Life restoration of A. jaekeli, with the body reconstructed after Chimaeropsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Chimaeriformes
Family: †Myriacanthidae
Genus: †
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.


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