Edestidae
| Edestidae Temporal range: 360–200Ma Early Carboniferous to Early Jurassic | |
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| Edestus protopirata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | Holocephali |
| Order: | †Eugeneodontida |
| Family: | †Edestidae Jaekel, 1899 |
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Edestidae is a poorly known, extinct family of shark-like eugeneodontid holocephalid cartilaginous fish. Members of this family possessed a unique "tooth-whorl" on the symphysis of the lower jaw as well as pectoral fins supported by long radials. The palatoquadrate was either fused to the skull or reduced. Edestids, along with the rest of Eugeneodontida, are placed within Holocephali.[1]
External links
- Palaeos Vertebrates 70.100 Chondrichthyes: Eugnathostomata Paleos.com at paleos.com
- JSTOR: Journal of PaleontologyVol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 162-165
- Mikkk's phylogeny Archive
References
- ↑ Tapanila, L., Pruitt, J., Pradel, A., Wilga, C., Ramsay, J., Schlader, R., Didier, D. 2013. Jaws for a spiral-tooth whorl: CT images reveal novel adaptation and phylogeny in fossil Helicoprion. Biology Letters. 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0057