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Damocles serratus

Chondrichthyes - Symmoriiformes - Falcatidae

Taxonomy
Damocles serratus was named by Lund (1986). Its type specimen is CM 35472, a skeleton (curled skeleton of a male), and it is a compression preserving soft parts. Its type locality is Bear Gulch (Carnegie Museum Collection), which is in an Arnsbergian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana. It is the type species of Damocles.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Damocles serratus Lund p. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
classChondrichthyes
subclassElasmobranchiiBonaparte 1838
superorderCladodontomorphi
orderSymmoriiformes()
familyFalcatidaeZangerl 1990
genusDamocles
speciesserratus

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Damocles serratus Lund 1986
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available