Aquilolamna
Genus of extinct elasmobranch from the Late Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aquilolamna is an extinct genus of shark-like elasmobranch from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian)-aged Agua Nueva Formation of Mexico. It is currently known to contain only one species, A. milarcae, also known as the eagle shark, and it is classified in its own family Aquilolamnidae, which has been tentatively assigned to the mackerel sharks.[1][2]
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Aquilolamna | |
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Restoration of A. milarcae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Lamniformes (?) |
Family: | †Aquilolamnidae Vullo et al., 2021 |
Genus: | †Aquilolamna Vullo et al., 2021 |
Type species | |
†Aquilolamna milarcae Vullo et al., 2021 |
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