Duffinselache
Extinct genus of cartilaginous fish
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Duffinselache (Duffin's shark) is an extinct genus of basal shark elasmobranchii cartilaginous fish, known from a single species, Duffinselache holwellensis, collected from the Late Triassic (Rhaetian stage) of England.[1] It was first named by Duffin in 1998 as a species of Polyacrodus. Plamen S. Andreev and Gilles Cuny in 2012 reassigned it to a new genus as its type species, Polyacrodus holwellensis.[2]
| Duffinselache Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Genus: | †Duffinselache Andreev & Cuny, 2012 |
| Species: | †D. holwellensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Duffinselache holwellensis (Duffin, 1998) | |
| Synonyms | |
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†Polyacrodus holwellensi Duffin, 1998 | |
