Welcommia

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Welcommia
Temporal range: Oxfordian
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Superorder: Selachimorpha
Order: Hexanchiformes
Family: Hexanchidae
Genus: Welcommia
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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[]

  1. ^ 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.


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