Ctenacanthus
Ctenacanthus | |
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Agassiz's plate of C. major. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Infraphylum: | Gnathostomata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Ctenacanthiformes |
Family: | Ctenacanthidae |
Genus: | †Ctenacanthus |
Type species | |
Ctenacanthus major Agassiz, 1837 | |
Species | |
See text |
Ctenacanthus is a prehistoric cartilaginous fish genus. Remains have been found in the Bloyd Formation in Arkansas, United States (Carboniferous period) and in South America.[2]
Species
- †Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias Cope, 1891
- †Ctenacanthus buttersi St. John & Worthen, 1883
- †Ctenacanthus chemungensis Claypole, 1885
- †Ctenacanthus cliftonensis Branson & Mehl, 1938
- †Ctenacanthus concinnus Newberry, 1875
- †Ctenacanthus costellatus Traquair, 1884
- †Ctenacanthus elegans Tuomey, 1858 - Alabama[3]
- †Ctenacanthus furcicarinatus Newberry, 1875
- †Ctenacanthus major Agassiz, 1843
- †Ctenacanthus maranhensis Santos, 1946
- †Ctenacanthus nodocostatus Hussakof & Bryant, 1918
- †Ctenacanthus terrelli Newberry, 1889
- †Ctenacanthus tumidus Newberry, 1889
- species brought into synonymy
See also
References
- ↑ Agassiz, Louis (1837). "De genre Ctenacanthus Agass". Contenant l'Histoire de l'Ordre de Placoïdes. Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. 3. Neuchâtel: Petitpierre. pp. 10–12.
- ↑ Acanthodian fish remains from the Upper Silurian or Lower Devonian of the Amazon Basin, Brazil. Philippe Janvier, Jose Henrique G. Melo, Palaeontology, Aug 1988, Vol 31, part 3
- ↑ Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Numéro 179, Oliver Perry Hay at Google Books
- ↑ John G. Maisey (2010). "Heslerodidae (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii), a new family of Paleozoic phalacanthous sharks". Kirtlandia 57: 13–21.
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