Falcatidae Temporal range:
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Falcatus specimen in Vienna | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | † Symmoriiformes |
Family: | † Falcatidae |
Falcatidae is a family of Paleozoic cartilaginous fish belonging to the order Symmoriiformes. [1] Members of this family include Falcatus, a small fish from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana. [2] The family first appeared around the start of the Carboniferous, and there is some evidence that they survived well into the early Cretaceous, [3] though its putative Cretaceous members were also argued to be more likely neoselachians. [4]
Falcatidae Temporal range:
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Falcatus specimen in Vienna | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | † Symmoriiformes |
Family: | † Falcatidae |
Falcatidae is a family of Paleozoic cartilaginous fish belonging to the order Symmoriiformes. [1] Members of this family include Falcatus, a small fish from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana. [2] The family first appeared around the start of the Carboniferous, and there is some evidence that they survived well into the early Cretaceous, [3] though its putative Cretaceous members were also argued to be more likely neoselachians. [4]