Rolfodon bracheri
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| Rolfodon bracheri Temporal range: Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Hexanchiformes |
| Family: | Chlamydoselachidae |
| Genus: | † |
| Species: | †R. bracheri
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| Binomial name | |
| †Rolfodon bracheri (Pfeil, 1983)
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Rolfodon bracheri is an extinct species from the family Chlamydoselachidae. It lived during the Miocene.
R. bracheri was named by Pfeil in 1983. Originally it was described as a species belonging to the genus Chlamydoselachus; Cappetta, Morrison & Adnet (2019) transferred it to the chlamydoselachid genus Rolfodon.[1]
References[]
- ^ Henri Cappetta; Kurt Morrison; Sylvain Adnet (2019). "A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 33 (8): 1121–1182. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1681421.
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- Chlamydoselachidae
- Miocene fish
- Fish described in 1983
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