Agaleus
| Agaleus dorsetensis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Family: | †Agaleidae |
| Genus: | †Agaleus Duffin & Ward, 1983 |
| Species: | †A. dorsetensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Agaleus dorsetensis Duffin & Ward, 1983
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Agaleus is an extinct genus of stem-galeomorph shark from the Early Jurassic Epoch. The genus Agaleus is monotypic, consisting solely of the species Agaleus dorsetensis. This species is currently only known from isolated teeth.
Taxonomy[edit]
Some authorities have placed this species as a basal member of the order Orectolobiformes, but subsequent researchers have found it to be a stem-galeomorph just outside the crown group of Orectolobiformes.[1]
Distribution[edit]
It is known from the Sinemurian of Lyme Regis, England and the Pliensbachian-aged Hasle Formation of Denmark.[2] Other places which have produced this species include Northern Ireland, France, Belgium, and Sweden. Possible later occurrences of this genus in north-western Europe have been documented but not yet formally attributed to the genus.
References[edit]
- ^ Rees, Jan; Cuny, Gilles (Mar 2007). "On the enigmatic neoselachianAgaleus dorsetensisfrom the European Early Jurassic". GFF. 129 (1): 1–6. Bibcode:2007GFF...129....1R. doi:10.1080/11035890701291001. ISSN 1103-5897. S2CID 128875354.
- ^ Rees, K. 1998. Early Jurassic selachians from the Hasle Formation on Bornholm, Denmark. - Acta Palaeontologica polonica 43, 3, 439-452
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