Nemacanthus (from Greek: νέμω némō, 'to distribute' and Greek: ἄκανθα akantha, 'spine')[2] is an extinct genus of prehistoric sharks in the family Palaeospinacidae.
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| Fossil of Nemacanthus monilifer - picture taken at Museum of Paleontology, Tubingen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Synechodontiformes |
| Family: | †Palaeospinacidae |
| Genus: | †Nemacanthus Agassiz, 1837[1] |
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The species N. elegans is from the Triassic of Idaho, United States.[3]
See also
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edit- ^ L. Agassiz. 1837. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 8-9). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel viii-72
- ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 119. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ H. M. Evans. 1904. A new cestraciont spine from the Lower Triassic of Idaho. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology 3(18), pages 397-402
- Maisey, J. G. (1977). "The fossil selachian fishes Palaeospinax Egerton, 1872 and Nemacanthus Agassiz, 1837". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 60 (3): 259–273. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1977.tb01029.x
External links
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Data related to Nemacanthus at Wikispecies
Media related to Nemacanthus at Wikimedia Commons- "Nemacanthus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- "Nemacanthus". Paleobiology Database.
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