Nemacanthus Temporal range:
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Fossil of Nemacanthus monilifer - picture taken at Museum of Paleontology, Tubingen | |
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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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Nemacanthus (from Greek: νέμω némō, 'to distribute' and Greek: ἄκανθα akantha, 'spine')[2] is an extinct genus of prehistoric sharks in the family Palaeospinacidae.
The species N. elegans is from the Triassic of Idaho, United States.[3]