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Extinct family of cartilaginous fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Falcatidae is a family of Paleozoic cartilaginous fish belonging to the order Symmoriiformes.[1] Members of this family include Falcatus, a small fish from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana.[2] The family first appeared around the start of the Carboniferous, and there is some evidence that they survived well into the early Cretaceous,[3] though its putative Cretaceous members were also argued to be more likely neoselachians.[4]
Falcatidae Temporal range: | |
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Falcatus specimen in Vienna | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Order: | †Symmoriiformes |
Family: | †Falcatidae |
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