Antrigoulia
Appearance
| Antrigoulia Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Synechodontiformes |
| Family: | †Palaeospinacidae |
| Genus: | †Antrigoulia Guinot, Cappetta, & Adnet, 2014 |
| Species: | †A. circumplicata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Antrigoulia circumplicata Guinot, Cappetta, & Adnet, 2014 | |
Antrigoulia is an extinct genus of palaeospinacid cartilaginous fish from the Cretaceous period of France.[1] The generic name refers to a farm in the vicinity of the type locality called Mas d’Antrigoule where isolated teeth were found in Valanginian-aged marine strata, A. circumplicata. The specific name is derived from the concentric folds on the labial side of its teeth.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Antrigoulia circumplicata | Shark-References". shark-references.com. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
- ↑ Guinot, Guillaume & Henri, Cappetta & Adnet, Sylvain. (2014). A rare elasmobranch assemblage from the Valanginian (Lower Cretaceous) of southern France. Cretaceous Research. 48. 54–84. 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.014.