-
include three living families and a
little over 50
species of
surviving holocephalans.
These fishes move by
using sweeping movements of
their large pectoral...
- the most
bizarre radiation of
holocephalans at this time was that of the iniopterygiformes, an
order of
holocephalans that
greatly resembled modern day...
- Heithaus,
Michael (eds.), "Phylogeny,
Biology and
classification of
Extant Holocephalans",
Biology of
Sharks and
Their Relatives,
Second Edition, vol. 20123460...
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others placed it as an elasmobranch,
originating slightly later than the
holocephalans. A few
studies even
suggested that it was a more
derived elasmobranch...
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those of chimaeras. They were
placed as
early diverging holocephalans, with all
other holocephalans more
closely related to each
other than they are to Symmoriiformes...
- 1993 1 1 †Protacrodonti-
formes †Cladoselachi-
formes Dean, 1894 1 2
Holocephalans, and
potential members of the symmoriida. †Xenacanthiformes Xenacanths...
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intrauterine feeding in a new
holocephalan fish from the
Lower Carboniferous of Montana". Science. 209 (4457): 697–699...
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Delphyodontos dacriformes is a
prehistoric holocephalan fish from the
middle Carboniferous-aged Bear
Gulch Limestone Lagerstätte,
during the Bashkirian...
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problematica (Traquair, 1888) redescribed: a
Lower Carboniferous, eel-like
holocephalan from Scotland".
Earth and
Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal...
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Campodus is an
extinct genus of
eugeneodont holocephalans from the Carboniferous.
Likely one of the
earliest and most
basal caseodontoids, it can be characterized...
