Palaeospinax
Palaeospinax Temporal range: Early Triassic-Eocene
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | †Synechodontiformes |
Family: | †Palaeospinacidae |
Genus: | †Palaeospinax Egerton, 1872 |
Type species | |
†Paleospinax priscus Agassiz 1843
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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.