Alethodontus
Appearance
Alethodontus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Holocephali |
Order: | Chimaeriformes |
Family: | Myriacanthidae |
Genus: | †Alethodontus Duffin, 1983 |
Alethodontus is an extinct genus of chimaera from the Hettangian stage of the Jurassic period. It is known from a single species, A. bavariensis, known from Germany.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Duffin, C. J., & Milan, J. (2017). A new myriacanthid holocephalian from the Early Jurassic of Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 65, 161-170.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Alethodontus bavariensis". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.