Ctenacanthus

Ctenacanthus is a prehistoric cartilaginous fish genus. Remains have been found in the Bloyd Formation in Arkansas, United States (Carboniferous period) and in South America.[2]

Ctenacanthus
Agassiz's plate of C. major.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Subclass:
Elasmobranchii
Order:
Ctenacanthiformes
Family:
Ctenacanthidae
Genus:
†Ctenacanthus

Type species
Ctenacanthus major
Agassiz, 1837
Species

See text

Species
  • †Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias Cope, 1891
  • †Ctenacanthus buttersi St. John & Worthen, 1883
  • †Ctenacanthus chemungensis Claypole, 1885
  • †Ctenacanthus cliftonensis Branson & Mehl, 1938
  • †Ctenacanthus concinnus Newberry, 1875
  • †Ctenacanthus costellatus Traquair, 1884
  • †Ctenacanthus elegans Tuomey, 1858 - Alabama[3]
  • †Ctenacanthus furcicarinatus Newberry, 1875
  • †Ctenacanthus major Agassiz, 1843
  • †Ctenacanthus maranhensis Santos, 1946
  • †Ctenacanthus nodocostatus Hussakof & Bryant, 1918
  • †Ctenacanthus terrelli Newberry, 1889
  • †Ctenacanthus tumidus Newberry, 1889
species brought into synonymy

See also

References
  1. Agassiz, Louis (1837). "De genre Ctenacanthus Agass". Contenant l'Histoire de l'Ordre de Placoïdes. Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. 3. Neuchâtel: Petitpierre. pp. 10–12.
  2. Acanthodian fish remains from the Upper Silurian or Lower Devonian of the Amazon Basin, Brazil. Philippe Janvier, Jose Henrique G. Melo, Palaeontology, Aug 1988, Vol 31, part 3
  3. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Numéro 179, Oliver Perry Hay at Internet Archive
  4. John G. Maisey (2010). "Heslerodidae (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii), a new family of Paleozoic phalacanthous sharks". Kirtlandia 57: 13–21.


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