Agaleus
| Agaleus dorsetensis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Family: | † |
| Genus: | †Agaleus Duffin & Ward, 1983 |
| Species: | †A. dorsetensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Agaleus dorsetensis Duffin & Ward, 1983
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Agaleus is an extinct genus of stem Galeomorph shark from the Early Jurassic Epoch. The genus Agaleus is monotypic, consisting solely of the species Agaleus dorsetensis. This species is currently only known from isolated teeth.
Taxonomy[]
Some authorities have placed this species as a basal member of the order Orectolobiformes, but subsequent researchers have found it to be a stem-Galeomorph just outside the crown group of Orectolobiformes.[1]
Distribution[]
It is known from the Sinemurian of and the Pliensbachian-aged Hasle Formation of Denmark.[2] Other places which have produced this species include Northern Ireland, France, Belgium, and Sweden. Possible later occurrences of this genus in north-western Europe have been documented but not yet formally attributed to the genus.
References[]
- ^ Rees, Jan; Cuny, Gilles (Mar 2007). "On the enigmatic neoselachianAgaleus dorsetensisfrom the European Early Jurassic". GFF. 129 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1080/11035890701291001. ISSN 1103-5897. S2CID 128875354.
- ^ Rees, K. 1998. Early Jurassic selachians from the Hasle Formation on Bornholm, Denmark. - Acta Palaeontologica polonica 43, 3, 439-452
- Sharks
- Prehistoric shark genera