Petalodontidae
Extinct family of cartilaginous fishes
Petalodontidae Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous to Permian | |
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Teeth of Petalodus ohioensis (Carboniferous). | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Holocephali |
Order: | †Petalodontiformes |
Family: | †Petalodontidae 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.
References
- ^ Petalodontidae at www.helsinki.fi
External links
- Petalodontidae at merriam-webster.com
- Petalodontidae at biolib.cz
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