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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.

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  • Taxonomy
  • Species
  • ''Echinochimaera meltoni''
  • ''Echinochimaera snyderi''
  • References

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.

thumb|Life restorations of a pair of Echinochimaera meltoni including a female (top left) and a male (bottom right)

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