Hybodontidae

Hybodontidae
Temporal range: 360.7–85 Ma

Late Mississippian to Cretaceous

Hybodus fraasi in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Selachimorpha
Order: Hybodontiformes
Superfamily: Hybodontoidea
Family: †Hybodontidae
Owen 1846
Genera
  • Asteracanthus
  • †Dicrenodus
  • †Egertonodus
  • Hybodus
  • †Miosynechodus
  • †Planohybodus
  • †Priohybodus
  • †Sphenonchus

Hybodontidae is an extinct family of sharks, first appearing in the Mississippian period, and disappearing during the Late Cretaceous.[1]

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