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(Redirected from Welcommia cappettai) Extinct genus of sharks

Welcommia
Temporal range: 183–175.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Jurassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Hexanchiformes
Family: †Pseudonotidanidae
Genus: †Welcommia
Klug & Kriwet, 2010

Welcommia is an extinct genus of shark. It contains only three species :-

  • †Welcommia bodeuri H. Cappetta, 1990 (Late Jurassic of France)
  • †Welcommia cappettai Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet, 2010 (middle Oxfordian of Germany)
  • †Welcommia terencei D. Delsate and P. Godefroit, 1995 (Jurassic of Belgium)

References

  1. ^ "†Welcommia terencei Delsate and Godefroit 1995 (shark)". Fossilworks.
  2. "Welcommia bodeuri Cappetta, 1990". Shark References (in French).
  3. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Welcommia


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