Because Fadenia and other Eugeneodont with complete fossil showed they have multiple gill slits. Single gill slits is the trait that only present in the more derived Holocephali. Also, apparently they lack pelvic fin. Though i'm unsure if this also applied to other Eugeneodonts.

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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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We're bringing and this to a close with the
These are another subclass of cartilaginous fish which come together with the to create the class

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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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