Acanthorhina

Acanthorhina is an extinct genus of chimaera from the Toarcian age of the Jurassic period.[1] It currently contains a single species, A. jaekeli known from the Posidonia shale of Holzmaden, Germany.[2][3]

Acanthorhina
Temporal range: Toarcian
Acanthorhina jaekeli from the Jurassic of Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Order:
Chimaeriformes
Family:
Myriacanthidae
Genus:
†Acanthorhina

Fraas, 1910

References
  1. "Fossilworks: Acanthorhina". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
  2. Fraas, E. (1910), Chimäridenreste aus dem oberen Lias von Holzmaden. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg, 66: 55–63
  3. Duffin, Christopher J. (Jan 1981). "The fin spine of a new holocephalan from the lower jurassic of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England". Geobios. 14 (4): 469–475. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(81)80122-2. ISSN 0016-6995.
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