-
shallower waters, in the
manner of
ancestral chimaera groups.
Extinct chimaeriforms include: †Suborder
Echinochimaeroidei Lund, 1977 †Family Echinochimaeridae...
- habitats,
which are
thought to have been the
ancestral habitats for
chimaeriforms up
until the
beginning of the Cenozoic. All
other chimaera groups have...
- and far
older than the
Mesozoic radiation which would lead to
modern chimaeriforms,
commonly known as chimaeras, rat fish, or
ghost sharks. Protochimaera...
- euchondrocephalans,
though in
modern animals they can only be
found in
embryonic chimaeriforms.
Another well-preserved specimen, USNM 22577+494391 (the "Sweetwood...
-
Echinochimaera ("prickly chimaera") is an
extinct genus of
chimaeriform fish,
known from the
Lower Carboniferous Bear
Gulch Limestone in Montana, United...
-
leopard seals and
those in
Australia were
noted to bear
wounds from
chimaeriforms and
stingrays respectively. When
hunting penguins, the
leopard seal...
-
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...
-
bilaterally symmetrical branching scales are also present. Like
other chimaeriforms,
Chimaeropsis has a
dentition made up of
tooth plates.
These include...
- New
Zealand and E.
snowhillensis from Antarctica). Like most
other chimaeriforms,
Edaphodon is
known mainly from
poorly preserved specimens because its...
- Callorhinchus, an
extant genus of
basal chimaeriforms with a
fossil record extending back to
middle Cretaceous. It was
morphologically similar, if not...
