Climatiiformes

Climatiiformes
Temporal range: 418–298 Ma Silurian - Carboniferous [1]
An artist's restoration of Climatius.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: †Acanthodii
Order: †Climatiiformes
Suborders & families

The Climatiiformes is an order of extinct fish belonging to the class Acanthodii. Like most other "spiny sharks", the Climatiiformes had sharp spines. These animals were often fairly small in size and lived from the Late Silurian to the Early Carboniferous period. The type genus is Climatius. The order used to be subdivided into the suborders Climatiida and Diplacanthida, but subsequently Diplacanthida has been elevated to a separate order, the Diplacanthiformes.[2] The Diplacanthiformes take their name from Diplacanthus, first described by Agassiz in 1843. Family Gyracanthidae is sometimes rejected from this order.[3]

  1. ^ Clowes, Chris. ""Acanthodii: Ptomacanthus." Palaeos Mesozoic: The Mesozoic Era". palaeos. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  2. ^ Burrow, C. Blaauwen, J D. Newman, M. and Davidson, R. (2016). The diplacanthid fishes (Acanthodii, Diplacanthiformes, Diplacanthidae) from the Middle Devonian of Scotland. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology,19.1.10A https://doi.org/10.26879/601
  3. ^ Turner, Susan; Burrow, Carole J.; Warren, Anne (2005). "Gyracanthides hawkinsi sp. nov. (Acanthodii, Gyracanthidae) from the Lower Carboniferous of Queensland, Australia, with a Review of Gyracanthid Taxa". Palaeontology. 48 (5): 963–1006. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00479.x. ISSN 0031-0239. S2CID 84735724.