Duffinselache
| Duffinselache Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Genus: | † Andreev & Cuny, 2012 |
| Species: | †D. holwellensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Duffinselache holwellensis (Duffin, 1998)
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| Synonyms | |
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†Polyacrodus holwellensi Duffin, 1998 | |
Duffinselache (Duffin's shark) is an extinct genus of basal shark elasmobranchii cartilaginous fish, known from a single species, Duffinselache holwellensis, collected from the Late Triassic (Rhaetian stage) of England.[1] It was first named by Duffin in 1998 as a species of Polyacrodus. Plamen S. Andreev and Gilles Cuny in 2012 reassigned it to a new genus as its type species, Polyacrodus holwellensis.[2]
References
- ^ "Duffinselache". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ^ Plamen S. Andreev & Gilles Cuny (2012). "New Triassic stem selachimorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) and their bearing on the evolution of dental enameloid in Neoselachii". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 255–266. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..255A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.644646. S2CID 84162775.