Definition of Chimaeriform. Meaning of Chimaeriform. Synonyms of Chimaeriform

- 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...
- Echinochimaera ("prickly chimaera") is an extinct genus of chimaeriform fish, known from the Lower Carboniferous Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana, United...
- Protochimaera is an extinct genus of chimaeriform fish from the Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) of central Russia. It is the oldest known representative...
- habitats, which are thought to have been the ancestral habitats for chimaeriforms up until the beginning of the Cenozoic. All other chimaera groups have...
- euchondrocephalans, though in modern animals they can only be found in embryonic chimaeriforms. Another well-preserved specimen, USNM 22577+494391 (the "Sweetwood...
- bilaterally symmetrical branching scales are also present. Like other chimaeriforms, Chimaeropsis has a dentition made up of tooth plates. These include...
- close relationship between myriacanthoids and the unusual, flattened chimaeriform Squaloraja, also known from the Jur****ic of Europe, though this relationship...
- Callorhinchus, an extant genus of basal chimaeriforms with a fossil record extending back to middle Cretaceous. It was morphologically similar, if not...
- leopard seals and those in Australia were noted to bear wounds from chimaeriforms and stingrays respectively. When hunting penguins, the leopard seal...