Orthacodontidae
| Orthacodontidae Temporal range:
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| The head of a Sphenodus nitidus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | †Synechodontiformes |
| Family: | †Orthacodontidae Glikman, 1957 |
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Orthacodontidae is an extinct family of sharks in the order Synechodontiformes. It contains twelve species within three genera. Some authors included it into Hexanchiformes or Lamniformes.[1]
Species[]
References[]
- ^ Rees, JAN (2010). "Neoselachian sharks from the Callovian-Oxfordian (Jurassic) of Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie Region, southern Poland". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 887–902. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00967.x.
Categories:
- Jurassic sharks
- Cretaceous sharks
- Hexanchiformes
- Shark families
- Prehistoric cartilaginous fish families
- Callovian first appearances
- Callovian taxonomic families
- Oxfordian taxonomic families
- Kimmeridgian taxonomic families
- Tithonian taxonomic families
- Berriasian taxonomic families
- Valanginian taxonomic families
- Hauterivian taxonomic families
- Barremian taxonomic families
- Aptian taxonomic families
- Albian taxonomic families
- Cenomanian taxonomic families
- Turonian taxonomic families
- Coniacian taxonomic families
- Santonian taxonomic families
- Campanian taxonomic families
- Maastrichtian taxonomic families
- Danian taxonomic families
- Selandian taxonomic families
- Selandian extinctions