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include three living families and a
little over 50
species of
surviving holocephalans.
These fishes move by
using sweeping movements of
their large pectoral...
- the most
bizarre radiation of
holocephalans at this time was that of the iniopterygiformes, an
order of
holocephalans that
greatly resembled modern day...
- some key
morphological differences that are
specific to chimaeras. The
holocephalan egg capsule, or egg case, has a
bulbous center flanked laterally by flattened...
- Heithaus,
Michael (eds.), "Phylogeny,
Biology and
classification of
Extant Holocephalans",
Biology of
Sharks and
Their Relatives,
Second Edition, vol. 20123460...
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intrauterine feeding in a new
holocephalan fish from the
Lower Carboniferous of Montana". Science. 209 (4457): 697–699...
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Delphyodontos dacriformes is a
prehistoric holocephalan fish from the
middle Carboniferous-aged Bear
Gulch Limestone Lagerstätte,
during the Bashkirian...
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reach around 85 cm. At birth, they are
approximately 13 cm long.
Being a
holocephalan from the
southwestern region of the Atlantic, C.
callorynchus is a vital...
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Debeeriidae (alternatively
spelled Debeeridae) is a
family of
holocephalan fishes from the
Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous. It is the only...
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Menaspiformes are an
extinct order of
holocephalans known from the
Carboniferous and
Permian periods, with a
possible member, Listracanthus,
known from...
- The
Eugeneodontidae is an
extinct family of
eugeneodont holocephalans known from the late
Paleozoic the
United States and Iran. A
defining trait of the...
