Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Full reference: J. W. Davis. 1879. Description of a new species of fossil fish spine Ctenacanthus minor, from the Lower Coal-measures of Yorkshire. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade II 6:532
Belongs to Ctenacanthus according to J. W. Davis 1879
Sister taxa: Ctenacanthus abnormis, Ctenacanthus acutus, Ctenacanthus aequistriatus, Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias, Ctenacanthus angulatus, Ctenacanthus angustus, Ctenacanthus burlingtonensis, Ctenacanthus buttersi, Ctenacanthus chemungensis, Ctenacanthus clarkii, Ctenacanthus cliftonensis, Ctenacanthus compressus, Ctenacanthus costatus, Ctenacanthus coxianus, Ctenacanthus crenatus, Ctenacanthus crenulatus, Ctenacanthus cylindricus, Ctenacanthus decussatus, Ctenacanthus denticulatus, Ctenacanthus depressus, Ctenacanthus elegans, Ctenacanthus excavatus, Ctenacanthus fallax, Ctenacanthus formosus, Ctenacanthus furcicarinatus, Ctenacanthus gemmatus, Ctenacanthus gracillimus, Ctenacanthus gradocostatus, Ctenacanthus gurleyi, Ctenacanthus keokuk, Ctenacanthus laevis, Ctenacanthus littoni, Ctenacanthus major, Ctenacanthus marshii, Ctenacanthus mayi, Ctenacanthus mutabilis, Ctenacanthus obscuracostatus, Ctenacanthus ornatus, Ctenacanthus pellensis, Ctenacanthus pugiunculus, Ctenacanthus pustulatus, Ctenacanthus randalli, Ctenacanthus sculptus, Ctenacanthus similis, Ctenacanthus speciosus, Ctenacanthus triangularis, Ctenacanthus venustus, Ctenacanthus vetustus, Ctenacanthus wrighti, Ctenacanthus xiphias
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dudley Hill, near Bradford, which is in a Moscovian/Kasimovian marine shale in the United Kingdom
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Dudley Hill, near Bradford
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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