Jiaodontus
Jiaodontus Temporal range: Late Jurassic, Oxfordian | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Chondrichthyes |
Class: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Hybodontiformes |
Family: | Lonchidiidae |
Genus: | Jiaodontus Klug et al., 2010 |
Species | |
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Jiaodontus is an extinct genus of lonchidiid cartilaginous fish which existed in Liuhuanggou, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern China, during the late Jurassic (Oxfordian age).[1] Fossils have been found in the Qigu Formation, China.[1] It was first named by Stefanie Klug, Thomas Tütken, Oliver Wings, Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner and Thomas Martin in 2010 and the type species is Jiaodontus montaltissimus.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Stefanie Klug, Thomas Tütken, Oliver Wings, Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner and Thomas Martin (2010). "A Late Jurassic freshwater shark assemblage (Chondrichthyes, Hybodontiformes) from the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China" (PDF). Palaeobiodiversity, Palaeoenvironments 90: 241–257. doi:10.1007/s12549-010-0032-2.