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#ExtinctFishoftheDay: 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
#ExtinctFishoftheDay 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)
We're bringing #SharkWeek and this #MapOfLife to a close with the #holocephali
These are another subclass of cartilaginous fish which come together with the #elasmobrachs to create the class #chondrichthyes
Stethacanthus is an extinct, shark-like Holocephalian that died out 323 milllion years ago & measured 70cm long.
(Credit DiBgd)
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
Stethacanthus is an extinct, shark-like Holocephalian that died out 323 milllion years ago & measured 70 cm long.
(Credit: DiBgd)