-
include three living families and a
little over 50
species of
surviving holocephalans.
These fishes move by
using sweeping movements of
their large pectoral...
- Heithaus,
Michael (eds.), "Phylogeny,
Biology and
classification of
Extant Holocephalans",
Biology of
Sharks and
Their Relatives,
Second Edition, vol. 20123460...
- the most
bizarre radiation of
holocephalans at this time was that of the iniopterygiformes, an
order of
holocephalans that
greatly resembled modern day...
- (from the
Ancient Gr****, "flesh saw") is an
extinct genus of
eugeneodont holocephalan from the
Permian of Greenland.
Similar to
other helicoprionids such as...
-
Debeeriidae is a
family of
holocephalan fishes from the
Mississippian subperiod of the Carboniferous. It is the only
family of the
order Debeeriiformes...
- some key
morphological differences that are
specific to chimaeras. The
holocephalan egg capsule, or egg case, has a
bulbous center flanked laterally by flattened...
- ISBN 978-0-691-10251-1. Lund, R. (1980). "Viviparity and
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...
-
Psammodontidae is an
extinct family of
holocephalans (sometimes
referred to as bradyodonts)
known from the
Carboniferous and
Permian periods. It is the...
-
Anisopleurodontis is a
genus of prehistoric, shark-like
holocephalan, the
remains of
which have been
discovered in the
Pedra de Fogo
Formation of Brazil...
