Cladoselachidae Explained
Cladoselachidae is an extinct family of cartilaginous fishes closely related to, and possibly nested within, Symmoriiformes.[1] They are characterized by having an elongated body with a spine in each of the two dorsal fins. In 2023, a paper describing a new cladoselachian, Maghriboselache found that it, and Cladoselache, were the only members of the family, greatly limiting the temporal range for this group to the Late Devonian.[2]
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- Klug . Christian . Coates . Michael . Frey . Linda . Greif . Merle . Jobbins . Melina . Pohle . Alexander . Lagnaoui . Abdelouahed . Haouz . Wahiba Bel . Ginter . Michal . March 2023 . Broad snouted cladoselachian with sensory specialization at the base of modern chondrichthyans . Swiss Journal of Palaeontology . en . 142 . 1 . 2 . 10.1186/s13358-023-00266-6 . free . 1664-2376 . 10050047 . 37009301.
