Myriacanthidae

Myriacanthidae
Temporal range: Latest Triassic-Early Jurassic
Fossil of Acanthorhina
Life restoration of a male Metopacanthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Holocephali
Order: Chimaeriformes
Family: †Myriacanthidae
Woodward 1889
Genera

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Myriacanthidae is an extinct family of holocephalan cartilaginous fish, closely related to living chimaeras. Fossils are known from the latest Triassic (Rhaetian) and Early Jurassic of Europe.

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