Welcommia

      Welcommia
      Temporal range: Oxfordian
      Scientific classification
      Kingdom: Animalia
      Phylum: Chordata
      Class: Chondrichthyes
      Subclass: Elasmobranchii
      Superorder: Selachimorpha
      Order: Hexanchiformes
      Family: Pseudonotidanidae
      Genus: Welcommia
      Klug & Kriwet, 2010
      Binomial name
      Welcommia cappettai
      Klug & Kriwet, 2010

      Welcommia is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish. It contains only one species - Welcommia cappettai, described from the middle Oxfordian of Germany by Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet, in 2010.[1]

      References

      1. ^ Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet (2010). "A new Late Jurassic species of the rare synechodontiform shark, Welcommia (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 (3): 413–419. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0058-9.


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