Gyracanthus

Gyracanthus
Temporal range:
Shoulder girdle and pectoral fin spine of Gyracanthus sherwoodi, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: †Acanthodii
Order: †Climatiiformes (?)
Family: †Gyracanthidae
Genus: †
Agassiz, 1837[1]
Species:

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Artist's reconstruction of Gyracanthus

Gyracanthus (from Greek: γύρος gyros, 'curved' and Greek: ἄκανθα akantha, 'spine')[2] is an extinct genus of acanthodian.[3]

Species

There are at least twenty one definitively known species, and at least one species tentatively assigned to Gyracanthus.

  • G. alleni
  • G. alnwicensis
  • G. compressus
  • G. convexus
  • G. cordatus
  • G. duplicatus
  • G. falciformis
  • G. formosus
  • G. incurvus
  • G. inornatus
  • G.? jasperi
  • G. magnificus
  • G. nobilis
  • G. obliquus
  • G. parvulus
  • G. primaevus
  • G. rectus
  • G. rothrocki
  • G. sarlei
  • G. sherwoodi
  • G. tuberculatus
  • G. youngii

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Gyracanthus".
  2. ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 74. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  3. ^ Snyder, D., Turner, S., Burrow, C. J., & Daeschler, E. B. (2017). “Gyracanthus” sherwoodi (Gnathostomata, Gyracanthidae) from the Late Devonian of North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 165(1), 195–219.
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