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Welcommia
Temporal range: 183–175.6  Ma [1] Jurassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Order: Hexanchiformes
Family: Pseudonotidanidae
Genus: Welcommia
Klug & Kriwet, 2010

Welcommia is an extinct genus of shark. It contains only three species :-

  • Welcommia bodeuri H. Cappetta, 1990 (Late Jurassic of France) [2]
  • Welcommia cappettai Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet, 2010 (middle Oxfordian of Germany) [3]
  • Welcommia terencei D. Delsate and P. Godefroit, 1995 (Jurassic of Belgium) [1]

References

  1. ^ a b "†Welcommia terencei Delsate and Godefroit 1995 (shark)". Fossilworks.
  2. ^ "Welcommia bodeuri Cappetta, 1990". Shark References (in French).
  3. ^ Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet (2010). "A new Late Jurassic species of the rare synechodontiform shark, Welcommia (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 (3): 413–419. doi: 10.1007/s12542-010-0058-9.