Akaimia
| Akaimia Temporal range: Middle-Late Jurassic, Callovian–Oxfordian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Orectolobiformes |
| Genus: | Akaimia Rees, 2010 |
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Akaimia is an extinct genus of carpet sharks which existed in Ogrodzieniec near Zawiercie, southern Poland, during the middle or late Jurassic (Callovian or Oxfordian age).[1] It was first named by Jan Rees in 2010 and the type species is Akaimia altucuspis.[1]
References
- 1 2 Jan Rees (2010). "Neoselachian sharks from the Callovian–Oxfordian (Jurassic) of Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie Region, southern Poland". Palaeontology. 53 (4): 887–902. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00967.x.
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