Palaeospinax

Palaeospinax
Temporal range: 250–60 Ma Early Triassic-Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Synechodontiformes
Family: Palaeospinacidae
Genus: Palaeospinax
Egerton, 1872
Type species
Paleospinax priscus
Agassiz 1843
Species
  • Palaeospinax finspine Agassiz 1843
  • Palaeospinax priscus Agassiz 1843
Synonyms
  • Paleospinax
  • Synechodus Woodward, 1888

Palaeospinax is an extinct genus of shark which lived from the Early Triassic to the end of the Eocene epoch. Although several species have been described, the genus is considered nomen dubium because the type-specimen of the type species, Palaeospinax priscus, lacks appropriate diagnostic characters to define the genus.

Other species originally described as Synechodus were transferred to the genus Palidiplospinax.


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