Hexanchiformes Temporal range: Permian record
Possible | |
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Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) | |
Frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Division: | Selachii |
Superorder: | Squalomorphi |
Clade: | Hexanchida |
Order: | Hexanchiformes F. de Buen, 1926 |
Families | |
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The Hexanchiformes /hɛkˈsæŋkɪfɔːrmiːz/ are a primitive order of sharks,[a] numbering just seven extant species in two families. Fossil sharks that were apparently very similar to modern sevengill species are known from Jurassic specimens.[2]
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