Belantsea, a tiny cartilaginous ratfish (Holocephali) from Bear Gulch, Montana. It was an agile reef fish with a beak of "fangs". It's unclear whether it moved like a tang, frogfish, or stingray given enlarged fins and flattened fossils

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Harpagofututor, another Carboniferous "eel" related to ratfish/ghost sharks (Holocephali), with toothplates for shell-crushing. The name ("grappling hook copulator") is for the males' head-clasper "antlers", which females bit during mating! (Nix Illustration)

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Stethacanthus is an extinct, shark-like Holocephalian that died out 323 milllion years ago & measured 70cm long.

(Credit DiBgd)

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界:動物界 Animalia
門:脊索動物門 Chordata
亜門:脊椎動物亜門 Vertebrata
綱:軟骨魚綱 Chondrichthyes
亜綱:全頭亜綱 Holocephali
目:ギンザメ目 Chimaeriformes
種:  ココノホシザメ Hydrolagus barbouri

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Stethacanthus is an extinct, shark-like Holocephalian that died out 323 milllion years ago & measured 70 cm long.

(Credit: DiBgd)

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