Biology:Debeerius

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Short description: Genus of cartilaginous fishes

Debeerius
Temporal range: Mississippian
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Restoration of Debeerius effelseni, an extinct chondrichtyan
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Family: Debeeriidae
Genus: Debeerius
Grogan & Lund, 2000
Species:
D. ellefseni
Binomial name
Debeerius ellefseni
Grogan & Lund, 2000

Debeerius is a genus of chondrichthyan from the Mississippian age Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana, United States . It is named after Gavin de Beer. One species, D. ellefseni, is known.[1]

References

  1. Eileen D. Grogan & Richard Lund (2000). "Debeerius ellefseni (fam. nov., gen. nov., spec. nov.), an autodiastylic chondrichthyan from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana (USA), the relationships of the chondrichthyes, and comments on gnathostome evolution". Journal of Morphology 243 (3): 219–245. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(200003)243:3<219::AID-JMOR1>3.0.CO;2-1. PMID 10681469. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3704366 entry