- rays)
during the Devonian, over 380
million years ago. The
oldest known chimaeriform is
Protochimaera from the
Early Carboniferous (338–332
million years...
-
Squaloraja (Latin for "shark-skate") is an
extinct genus of ray-like
marine chimaeriform fish from the
Early Jur****ic of Europe. It
contains a
single named species...
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Echinochimaera ("prickly chimaera") is an
extinct genus of
chimaeriform fish,
known from the
Lower Carboniferous Bear
Gulch Limestone in Montana, United...
-
Francisco Amaro; Robert,
Emmanuel (February 2013). "A new
species of
chimaeriform (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali) from the
uppermost Cretaceous of the López...
-
Protochimaera is an
extinct genus of
chimaeriform fish from the
Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) of
central Russia. It is the
oldest known representative...
- euchondrocephalans,
though in
modern animals they can only be
found in
embryonic chimaeriforms.
Another well-preserved specimen, USNM 22577+494391 (the "Sweetwood...
- habitats,
which are
thought to have been the
ancestral habitats for
chimaeriforms up
until the
beginning of the Cenozoic. All
other chimaera groups have...
-
bilaterally symmetrical branching scales are also present. Like
other chimaeriforms,
Chimaeropsis has a
dentition made up of
tooth plates.
These include...
-
leopard seals and
those in
Australia were
noted to bear
wounds from
chimaeriforms and
stingrays respectively. When
hunting penguins, the
leopard seal...
-
close relationship between myriacanthoids and the unusual,
flattened chimaeriform Squaloraja, also
known from the Jur****ic of Europe,
though this relationship...
