Petalodontidae
| Petalodontidae Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous to Permian   | |
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| Teeth of Petalodus ohioensis (Carboniferous). | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Chondrichthyes | 
| Subclass: | Holocephali | 
| Order: | †Petalodontiformes | 
| Family: | † Newberry & Worthen, 1866  | 
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Petalodontidae is an extinct family of marine cartilaginous fish related to the modern-day chimaeras, found in what is now the United States of America and Europe. With a very few exceptions, they are known entirely from teeth. All fossils range from the Carboniferous to the Permian, where they are presumed to have died out during the Permian/Triassic extinction event.
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