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Cladoselachidae
Taxonomy
Cladoselachidae was named by Dean (1894).
It was assigned to Pleuropterygia by Hay (1902); to Pleuropterygii by Jordan (1963); to Cladoselachii by Dean (1894), Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Cladoselachida by Zangerl (1981), Williams (2001); and to Cladoselachiformes by Ginter et al. (2010), Nelson et al. (2016), van der Laan (2019).
It was assigned to Pleuropterygia by Hay (1902); to Pleuropterygii by Jordan (1963); to Cladoselachii by Dean (1894), Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Cladoselachida by Zangerl (1981), Williams (2001); and to Cladoselachiformes by Ginter et al. (2010), Nelson et al. (2016), van der Laan (2019).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1894 | Cladoselachidae Dean p. 111 |
| 1902 | Cladoselachidae Hay p. 272 |
| 1963 | Cladoselachidae Jordan p. 591 |
| 1981 | Cladoselachidae Thurmond and Jones p. 37 |
| 1981 | Cladoselachidae Zangerl p. 66 |
| 2001 | Cladoselachidae Williams p. 220 |
| 2010 | Cladoselachidae Ginter et al. p. 58 |
| 2016 | Cladoselachidae Nelson et al. p. 46 |
| 2019 | Cladoselachidae van der Laan p. 35 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. †Cladoselachidae Dean 1894
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G. †Cladoselache Dean 1894
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†Cladoselache clarki Claypole 1893
†Cladoselache fyleri Newberry 1889
†Cladoselache kepleri Newberry 1888
†Cladoselache newberryi Dean 1894
†Cladoselache sinuatus Claypole 1893
G. †Monocladodus Claypole 1893
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†Monocladodus clarki Claypole 1893
†Monocladodus pinnatus Claypole 1893
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| B. Dean 1894 | Body fusiform, presenting a horizontal dermal keel at the base of the tail. Fins bluntly lobate: in pectoral the posterior radials often bifurcate. Teeth cladodont. Anal and dorsal probably small, lacking in fin spine0).Circum-orbital derm plates quadrangular and in concentric rows. |
Measurements
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Age range: base of the Early/Lower Famennian to the top of the Carboniferous or 372.15000 to 298.90000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Famennian - Middle Famennian | Morocco | Maghriboselache mohamezanei (238503 238504 238505 238506) | |
| Famennian | USA (Ohio) | Cladoselache clarki (90678) Cladoselache kepleri (225952) | |
| Carboniferous | USA (Ohio) | Cladoselache sp. (226533) |