Acanthorhina
Extinct genus of cartilaginous fishes
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Acanthorhina is an extinct genus of holocephalan cartilaginous fish from the Toarcian age of the Jurassic period.[1] It currently contains a single species, A. jaekeli known from the Posidonia shale of Holzmaden, Germany.[2][3]
| Acanthorhina Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil and skeletal reconstruction of A. jaekeli | |
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| Life restoration of A. jaekeli, with the body reconstructed after Chimaeropsis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | Chimaeriformes |
| Family: | †Myriacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Acanthorhina |
| Species: | †A. jaekeli |
| Binomial name | |
| †Acanthorhina jaekeli Fraas, 1910 | |
