Welcommia
Welcommia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Superorder: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Hexanchiformes |
Family: | Hexanchidae |
Genus: | †Welcommia & , 2010 |
Welcommia is an extinct genus of shark. It contains only two species - Welcommia bodeuri and Welcommia cappettai, described from the middle Oxfordian of Germany by Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet, in 2010.[1]
References[]
- ^ Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet (2010). "A new Late Jurassic species of the rare synechodontiform shark, Welcommia (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 (3): 413–419. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0058-9.
Categories:
- Prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera
- Jurassic cartilaginous fish
- Hexanchiformes
- Fossils of Germany
- Jurassic fish of Europe
- Shark genera
- Prehistoric cartilaginous fish stubs
- Jurassic fish stubs
- Shark stubs