Cladoselachidae is an extinct family of cartilaginous fishes closely related to, and possibly nested within, Symmoriiformes.[1] They are characterized by having an elongated body with a spine in each of the two dorsal fins. In 2023, a paper describing a new cladoselachian, Maghriboselache found that it, and Cladoselache, were the only members of the family, greatly limiting the temporal range for this group to the Late Devonian.[2]
| Cladoselachidae Temporal range: | |
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| A reconstruction of Cladoselache | |
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| Diagram of Maghriboselache | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Eugnathostomata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Holocephali |
| Order: | †Cladoselachiformes |
| Family: | †Cladoselachidae Dean, 1894 |
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