Falcatidae

Falcatidae
Temporal range: 335–318 Ma
Falcatus specimen in Vienna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Chondrichthyes
Order:†Symmoriida
Family:†Falcatidae

Falcatidae is a family of paleozoic ratfish.[1] Members of this Family include Falcatus, a small fish from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana.[2] The family first appeared around the start of the Carboniferous, and there is some evidence that they survived well into the early Cretaceous.[3]

Genera

References

  1. ↑ Coates, M.; Gess, R.; Finarelli, J.; Criswell, K.; Tietjen, K. (2016). "A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes". Nature. 541: 208–211. doi:10.1038/nature20806.
  2. 1 2 "The morphology of Falcatus falcatus (St. John and Worthen), a Mississippian stethacanthid chondrichthyan from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 5 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1080/02724634.1985.10011842.
  3. ↑ Guillaume Guinot; Sylvain Adnet; Lionel Cavin; Henri Cappetta (2013). "Cretaceous stem chondrichthyans survived the end-Permian mass extinction". Nature Communications. 4: Article number: 2669. doi:10.1038/ncomms3669. PMID 24169620.
  4. 1 2 Ginter, M., Hampe., Duffin, C. 2010. Handbook of Paleoichthyology: Volume 3D- Paleozoic Elasmobranchii teeth. Verlag Dr. Freidrich Pfeil
  5. ↑ Alan Pradel; John G. Maisey; Paul Tafforeau; Royal H. Mapes; Jon Mallatt (2014). "A Palaeozoic shark with osteichthyan-like branchial arches". Nature. 509 (7502): 608–611. doi:10.1038/nature13195. PMID 24739974.
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