Akaimia

Akaimia is an extinct genus of carpet sharks which existed across Europe. Two species are known, the type species A. altucuspis from the middle or late Jurassic (Callovian or Oxfordian age) of Ogrodzieniec near Zawiercie, southern Poland, and [1] A. myriacuspis,[1] from the middle Jurassic (Callovian) of the Oxford Clay, near Peterborough.[2] It was first named by Jan Rees in 2010.[2]

Akaimia
Temporal range: Middle-Late Jurassic,
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Chondrichthyes
Subclass:
Elasmobranchii
Order:
Orectolobiformes
Genus:
Akaimia

Rees, 2010
Species
  • A. altucuspis Rees, 2010
  • A. myriacuspis Srdic et al., 2016

References
  1. Alex Srdic (2016). "First occurrence of the orectolobiform shark Akaimia in the Oxford Clay Formation (Jurassic, Callovian) of England". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 127 (4): 506–513. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.07.002.
  2. Jan Rees (2010). "Neoselachian sharks from the Callovian–Oxfordian (Jurassic) of Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie Region, southern Poland". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 887–902. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00967.x.


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