Glikmanius

Glikmanius; Temporal range: Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	†Ctenacanthiformes
Family:	†Ctenacanthidae
Genus:	†Glikmanius; Ginter, Ivanov & Lebedev, 2005
Type species
	Glikmanius occidentalis; (Leidy, 1859)

Glikmanius is an extinct genus of cladodont shark which lived in the Carboniferous of North America and Russia. The genus is based on a whole specimen from Nebraska, USA. Glikmanius is named in honour of the Russian palaeontologist, Dr. Leonid Glikman, who studied the genus and was "the first to propose its ctenacanthiform affinity".^[1]

Tooth of Glikmanius occidentalis.

Species[]

Glikmanius culmenis Koot, Cuny, Tintori & Twitchett, 2013
Glikmanius occidentalis Leidy, 1859
Glikmanius myachkovensis Lebedev, 2001

References[]

^ ^a ^b Ginter, M., Ivanov, A. & Lebedev, O., 2005: The revision of "Cladodus" occidentalis, a late Palaeozoic ctenacanthiform shark. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica: Vol. 50, #3, pp. 623-631

"Ctenacanthiform Cladodont Teeth from the Lower Permian Wichita Group, Texas, U.S.A.", Acta Geologica Polonica, Vol. 58 (2008), No. 2, pp. 205–209

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[Ginter_et_al-1] Ginter, M., Ivanov, A. & Lebedev, O., 2005: The revision of "Cladodus" occidentalis, a late Palaeozoic ctenacanthiform shark. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica: Vol. 50, #3, pp. 623-631

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