Amelacanthus

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Amelacanthus
Temporal range: Famennian – Permian
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: †Ctenacanthiformes
Family: †Ctenacanthidae
Genus: †Amelacanthus
Maisey, 1982
Species
  • A. laevis
  • A. plicatus
  • A. pustulatus
  • A. sulcatus

Amelacanthus is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish from the Paleozoic era.[1] It is known from fin spines and currently contains four described species. It is known from the Permian and Carboniferous of North America, Europe, and Africa.[2][1] It is also known from the Famennian of Russia.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Fossilworks: Amelacanthus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Maisey, J. G. (1982). Studies on the Paleozoic selachian genus Ctenacanthus Agassiz. No. 2, Bythiacanthus St. John and Worthen, Amelacanthus, new genus, Eunemacanthus St. John and Worthen, Sphenacanthus Agassiz, and Wodnika Münster. American Museum novitates; no. 2722.
  3. ^ Lebedev, O. A., Ivanov, A. O., & Linkevich, V. V. (2020). Chondrichthyan spines from the Famennian (Upper Devonian) of Russia. Acta Geologica Polonica, 1-24.
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