Pseudodalatias
| Pseudodalatias Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Upper Triassic | |
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| Fossil of Pseudodalatias barnstonensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | † Pseudodalatiidae Reif, 1978 |
| Genus: | † Pseudodalatias Reif, 1978 |
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Pseudodalatias is an extinct genus of squaliform shark which existed in England, Italy and Spain during the Triassic period.[1] It is placed in the monotypic family Pseudodalatiidae, and contains the two species Pseudodalatias barnstonensis and Pseudodalatias henarejensis.
References
- ↑ Héctor Botella, Pablo Plasencia, Ana Marquez-Aliaga, Gilles Cuny & Markus Dorka (2009). "Pseudodalatias henarejensis nov. sp. a new pseudodalatiid (Elasmobranchii) from the Middle Triassic of Spain". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (4): 1006–1012. doi:10.1671/039.029.0425.
A.TINTORI (1980) Teeth of the selachian genus Pseudodalatias Sykes, 1971 from the Norian (Upper Triassic) of Lombardy. Riv.It.Paleont.Strat., v.86(1), 19-30, Milano
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