Acanthorhina Temporal range:
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Acanthorhina jaekeli from the Jurassic of Germany | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Holocephali |
Order: | Chimaeriformes |
Family: | Myriacanthidae |
Genus: | † Acanthorhina |
Species: | †A. jaekeli
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†Acanthorhina jaekeli Fraas, 1910
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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]