Echinochimaera
Sign in to saveEchinochimaera ("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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- Echinochimaera meltoni (fossil fish) (Bear Gulch Limestone, Upper Mississippian; Montana, USA) (33784748875).jpg
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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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