Biology:Pachymylus

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Short description: Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes

Pachymylus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Chimaeriformes
Family: Callorhynchidae
Genus: Pachymylus
Woodward, 1892
Species
  • Pachymylus leedsi

Pachymylus is an extinct genus of chimaera belonging to the family Callorhynchidae. The type species. P. leedsi was described by A. S. Woodward in 1892, and is known from the Middle-Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian) Oxford Clay of Peterborough, England. The type material consisted of a large mandibular tooth and two palatine teeth.[1][2] Indeterminate remains of the genus are also known from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) of France.[2]

References


Wikidata ☰ Q107304044 entry