Rolfodon bracheri
Rolfodon bracheri is an extinct species from the family Chlamydoselachidae. It lived during the Miocene.
| Rolfodon bracheri Temporal range: Miocene | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Hexanchiformes |
| Family: | Chlamydoselachidae |
| Genus: | †Rolfodon |
| Species: | †R. bracheri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Rolfodon bracheri (Pfeil, 1983) | |
R. bracheri was named by Pfeil in 1983. Originally it was described as a species belonging to the genus Chlamydoselachus; Cappetta, Morrison & Adnet (2019) transferred it to the chlamydoselachid genus Rolfodon.[1]
References
- Henri Cappetta; Kurt Morrison; Sylvain Adnet (2019). "A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 33 (8): 1121–1182. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1681421.
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