Amelacanthus
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Ctenacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Ctenacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Amelacanthus Maisey, 1982 |
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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] Specimens of Amelacanthus have additionally been found in Permian (Wordian) and Triassic (Induan) sediments of Oman. This makes Amelacanthus one of the only known Ctenacanths to have survived (albeit only briefly) the Permian-Trassic extinction event, going extinct only in the Early Triassic. [5][6][7]
References
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 "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
- ↑ Koot, Martha B.; Cuny, Gilles; Orchard, Michael J.; Richoz, Sylvain; Hart, Malcolm B.; Twitchett, Richard J. (2015-10-03). "New hybodontiform and neoselachian sharks from the Lower Triassic of Oman". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (10): 891–917. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.963179. ISSN 1477-2019.
- ↑ "New hybodontiform and neoselachian sharks from the Lower Triassic of Oman | Department of Geology". www.geology.lu.se. Retrieved 2026-07-09.