Debeerius

Debeerius ellefseni
Temporal range: Mississippian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Infraclass: Paraselachii
Family: Debeeriidae
Genus: Debeerius
Grogan & Lund, 2000
Species:  D. ellefseni
Binomial name
Debeerius ellefseni
Grogan & Lund, 2000

Debeerius is a genus of chondrichthyan from the Mississippian age. Its generic name honours Sir Gavin de Beer.[1]

References

  1. Eileen D. Grogan & Richard Lund (2000). "Debeerius ellefseni (fam. nov., gen. nov., spec. nov.), an autodiastylic chondrichthyan from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana (USA), the relationships of the chondrichthyes, and comments on gnathostome evolution". Journal of Morphology 243 (3): 219–245. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(200003)243:3<219::AID-JMOR1>3.0.CO;2-1. PMID 10681469.
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