Petalodontidae

Extinct family of cartilaginous fishes

Petalodontidae
Temporal range: Lower Carboniferous to Permian
Teeth of Petalodus ohioensis (Carboniferous).
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Petalodontiformes
Family: Petalodontidae
Newberry & Worthen, 1866
Genera
  • Ageleodus
  • Antliodus
  • Chomatodus
  • Ctenoptychius
  • Glyphanodus
  • Harpacodus
  • Lisogodus
  • Neopetalodus
  • Paracymatodus
  • Petalodus
  • Polyrhizodus
  • Serratodus
  • Siksika
  • Tanaodus[1]

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

  1. ^ Petalodontidae at www.helsinki.fi
  • Petalodontidae at merriam-webster.com
  • Petalodontidae at biolib.cz
Taxon identifiers
Petalodontidae


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