Petalodontidae
Sign in to savePetalodontidae is an extinct family of marine cartilaginous fish related to the modern-day chimaeras, found in what is now the United States of America and Europe. With a very few exceptions, they are known entirely from teeth. All fossils range from the Carboniferous to the Permian, where they are presumed to have died out during the Permian/Triassic extinction event.
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It is catalogued under topics including Carboniferous cartilaginous fish, Mississippian first appearances and Permian cartilaginous fish.
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- Parent taxon
- Petalodontiformes
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- Petalodus ohioensis fossil.jpg
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- Petalodontidae
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- Petalodontiformes
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Petalodontidae is an extinct family of marine cartilaginous fish related to the modern-day chimaeras, found in what is now the United States of America and Europe. With a very few exceptions, they are known entirely from teeth. All fossils range from the Carboniferous to the Permian, where they are presumed to have died out during the Permian/Triassic extinction event.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petalodontidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.