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Duffinselache

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Duffinselache
Temporal range: Late Triassic, Rhaetian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Division: Selachimorpha
Genus: Duffinselache
Andreev & Cuny, 2012
Species:
D. holwellensis
Binomial name
Duffinselache holwellensis
(Duffin, 1998)
Synonyms

Polyacrodus holwellensi Duffin, 1998

Duffinselache (Duffin's shark) is an extinct genus of basal selachimorph 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]

References

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  1. ^ "Duffinselache". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  2. ^ Plamen S. Andreev & Gilles Cuny (2012). "New Triassic stem selachimorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) and their bearing on the evolution of dental enameloid in Neoselachii". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 255–266. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..255A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.644646. S2CID 84162775.