Amelacanthus is an extinct genus of elasmobranchian cartilaginous fish from the Paleozoic era.[1][2] It is known from fin spines and currently contains four described species. It is known from the Permian and Carboniferous of North America, Europe, and Africa.[3][2] It is also known from the Famennian of Russia.[4] Possible specimens of Amelacanthus were found in Permian (Wordian) sediments of Oman.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Ctenacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Ctenacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Amelacanthus Maisey, 1982 |
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References
edit- ^ Elliott, D. K., Randall B. Irmis, Hansen, M. C., & Olson, T. J. (2004). Chondrichthyans from the Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) Naco Formation of Central Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24(2), 268–280.
- ^ a b "Fossilworks: Amelacanthus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Maisey, J. G. (1982). Studies on the Paleozoic selachian genus Ctenacanthus Agassiz. No. 2, Bythiacanthus St. John and Worthen, Amelacanthus, new genus, Eunemacanthus St. John and Worthen, Sphenacanthus Agassiz, and Wodnika Münster. American Museum novitates; no. 2722.
- ^ Lebedev, O. A., Ivanov, A. O., & Linkevich, V. V. (2020). Chondrichthyan spines from the Famennian (Upper Devonian) of Russia. Acta Geologica Polonica, 1-24.
- ^ M. B. Koot, G. Cuny, A. Tintori and R. J. Twitchett. (2013). A new diverse shark fauna from the Wordian (Middle Permian) Khuff Formation in the interior Haushi-Huqf area, Sultanate of Oman. Palaeontology 56:303-343
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