Debeerius

Debeerius is a genus of chondrichthyan from the Mississippian age Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana, United States. Its generic name honours Sir Gavin de Beer.[1]

Debeerius
Temporal range: Mississippian
Restoration of Debeerius effelseni, an extinct chondrichtyan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Family: Debeeriidae
Genus: Debeerius
Grogan & Lund, 2000
Species:
D. ellefseni
Binomial name
Debeerius ellefseni
Grogan & Lund, 2000

References

  1. Eileen D. Grogan & Richard Lund (2000). "Debeerius ellefseni (fam. nov., gen. nov., spec. nov.), an autodiastylic chondrichthyan from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana (USA), the relationships of the chondrichthyes, and comments on gnathostome evolution". Journal of Morphology. 243 (3): 219–245. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(200003)243:3<219::AID-JMOR1>3.0.CO;2-1. PMID 10681469.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.