Falcatidae
| Falcatidae Temporal range: 359–294 Ma | |
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| Falcatus specimen in Vienna | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Symmoriida |
| Family: | Falcatidae |
Falcatidae is a family of paleozoic sharks. Members of this Family include Falcatus, a small shark from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana.[1] The family first appeared around the start of the Carboniferous, and there is some evidence that they survived well into the early Cretaceous.[2]
Genera
References
- 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.
- ↑ Guillaume Guinot, Sylvain Adnet, Lionel Cavin and Henri Cappetta (2013). "Cretaceous stem chondrichthyans survived the end-Permian mass extinction". Nature Communications 4: Article number: 2669. doi:10.1038/ncomms3669.
- ↑ Alan Pradel, John G. Maisey, Paul Tafforeau, Royal H. Mapes and Jon Mallatt (2014). "A Palaeozoic shark with osteichthyan-like branchial arches". Nature 509 (7502): 608–611. doi:10.1038/nature13195.
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