Nemacanthus

Nemacanthus; Temporal range: 268.0–201.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossil of Nemacanthus monilifer - picture taken at Museum of Paleontology, Tubingen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	†Synechodontiformes
Family:	†Palaeospinacidae
Genus:	†Nemacanthus; Agassiz, 1837
Species
	†Nemacanthus bosnensis (Katzer, 1916); †Nemacanthus elegans (Evans, 1904); †Nemacanthus filifer Agassiz, 1843; †Nemacanthus minor Davis, 1881; †Nemacanthus monilifer Agassiz, 1843; †Nemacanthus splendens Quenstedt;
Synonyms
	Desmacanthus Quenstedt, 1858; †Cosmacanthus elegans (synonym of †Nemacanthus elegans Evans, 1904);

Nemacanthus (from Greek: νέμω némō, 'to distribute' and Greek: ἄκανθα akantha, 'spine')^[2] is an extinct genus of prehistoric sharks in the family Palaeospinacidae.

The species N. elegans is from the Triassic of Idaho, United States.^[3]

References[]

^ L. Agassiz. 1837. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 8-9). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel viii-72
^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 119. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
^ H. M. Evans. 1904. A new cestraciont spine from the Lower Triassic of Idaho. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 3(18), pages 397-402

Maisey, J. G. (1977). "The fossil selachian fishes Palaeospinax Egerton, 1872 and Nemacanthus Agassiz, 1837". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 60 (3): 259–273. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1977.tb01029.x

External links[]

Data related to Nemacanthus at Wikispecies
Media related to Nemacanthus at Wikimedia Commons
"Nemacanthus" at the Encyclopedia of Life
Nemacanthus at fossilworks.org

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[1] L. Agassiz. 1837. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 8-9). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel viii-72

[2] Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 119. Retrieved 31 December 2021.

[3] H. M. Evans. 1904. A new cestraciont spine from the Lower Triassic of Idaho. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 3(18), pages 397-402

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Nemacanthus Temporal range: 268.0–201.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Fossil of Nemacanthus monilifer - picture taken at Museum of Paleontology, Tubingen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Order:	†Synechodontiformes
Family:	†Palaeospinacidae
Genus:	†Nemacanthus Agassiz, 1837^[1]
Species
†Nemacanthus bosnensis (Katzer, 1916) †Nemacanthus elegans (Evans, 1904) †Nemacanthus filifer Agassiz, 1843 †Nemacanthus minor Davis, 1881 †Nemacanthus monilifer Agassiz, 1843 †Nemacanthus splendens Quenstedt
Synonyms
Desmacanthus Quenstedt, 1858 †Cosmacanthus elegans (synonym of †Nemacanthus elegans Evans, 1904)

Nemacanthus

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