Duffinselache
| Duffinselache Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Genus: | †Duffinselache Andreev & Cuny, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Duffinselache holwellensis (Duffin, 1998 [originally holwellensis])
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Duffinselache (Duffin's shark) is an extinct genus of basal selachimorph elasmobranchii cartilaginous fish known from the Late Triassic (Rhaetian stage) of England. It was first named by Duffin in 1998 as a species of . Plamen S. Andreev and Gilles Cuny in 2012 reassigned to its own genus, and its type species is Duffinselache holwellensis.[1]
References[]
- ^ Plamen S. Andreev & Gilles Cuny (2012). "New Triassic stem selachimorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) and their bearing on the evolution of dental enameloid in Neoselachii". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 255–266. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.644646. S2CID 84162775.
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