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- fossils are of teeth and come from the Devonian period. The only living holocephalans are the chimaeras (Chimaeriformes), though during the late Paleozoic...
- 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...
- Myriacanthidae is an extinct family of holocephalan cartilaginous fish, closely related to living chimaeras. Fossils are known from the latest Tri****ic...
- others placed it as an elasmobranch, originating slightly later than the holocephalans. A few studies even suggested that it was a more derived elasmobranch...
- (from the Ancient Gr****, "flesh saw") is an extinct genus of eugeneodont holocephalan from the Permian of Greenland. Similar to other helicoprionids such as...
- 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...
- Delphyodontos dacriformes is a prehistoric holocephalan fish from the middle Carboniferous-aged Bear Gulch Limestone Lagerstätte, during the Bashkirian...
- of the iniopterygians, both with each other and with other groups of holocephalan, has been considered problematic. Cervifurca Iniopera Iniopteryx Inioxyele...
- some key morphological differences that are specific to chimaeras. The holocephalan egg capsule, or egg case, has a bulbous center flanked laterally by flattened...