Acanthorhina
| Acanthorhina Temporal range:
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| Fossil and skeletal reconstruction of A. jaekeli | |
| Life restoration of A. jaekeli, with the body reconstructed after Chimaeropsis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | Chimaeriformes |
| Family: | †Myriacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Acanthorhina |
| Species: | †A. jaekeli
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| Binomial name | |
| †Acanthorhina jaekeli Fraas, 1910
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Acanthorhina is an extinct genus of holocephalan cartilaginous fish from the Toarcian age of the Jurassic period. It currently contains a single species, A. jaekeli known from the Posidonia shale of Holzmaden, Germany.