Echinochimaera
| Echinochimaera Temporal range: Serpukhovian,
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| Specimen of Echinochimaera meltoni | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | Chimaeriformes |
| Suborder: | †Echinochimaeroidei |
| Family: | †Echinochimaeridae |
| Genus: | †Echinochimaera Lund, 1977 |
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Echinochimaera ("prickly chimaera") is an extinct genus of chimaeriform fish, known from the Lower Carboniferous Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana, United States. It is one of the earliest Chimaeriformes known.