Orthacodontidae
| Orthacodontidae Temporal range:
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| The head of a Sphenodus nitidus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Family: | †Orthacodontidae Glikman, 1957 |
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Orthacodontidae is an extinct family of sharks. It is disputed as to whether it belongs to the modern shark order Hexanchiformes,[1] or the extinct order Synechodontiformes.[2] It contains two genera. Some other authors included it in Lamniformes.[3]
Species
[edit]- Occitanodus Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet, 2014
- Occitanodus sudrei Guinot, Cappetta & Adnet, 2014
- Sphenodus Agassiz, 1843
- Sphenodus alpinus Gümbel, 1861
- Sphenodus longidens Agassiz, 1843
- Sphenodus lundgreni Davis, 1890
- Sphenodus macer Quenstedt, 1852
- Sphenodus nitidus Wagner, 1862
- Sphenodus planus Agassiz, 1843
- Sphenodus rectidens Emmons, 1858
- Sphenodus robustidens Seguenza, 1900
- Sphenodus tithonius Gemmellaro, 1871
- Sphenodus virgai Gemmellaro, 1871
References
[edit]- ^ "Sphenodus longidens | Shark-References". shark-references.com. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ Villalobos-Segura, Eduardo; Stumpf, Sebastian; Türtscher, Julia; Jambura, Patrick L.; Begat, Arnaud; López-Romero, Faviel A.; Fischer, Jan; Kriwet, Jürgen (March 2023). "A Synoptic Review of the Cartilaginous Fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of Southern Germany: Taxonomy, Diversity, and Faunal Relationships". Diversity. 15 (3): 386. doi:10.3390/d15030386. ISSN 1424-2818. PMC 7614348.
- ^ Rees, JAN (2010). "Neoselachian sharks from the Callovian-Oxfordian (Jurassic) of Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie Region, southern Poland". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 887–902. Bibcode:2010Palgy..53..887R. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00967.x.
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