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| Specimen in Urzeitmeer-Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | †Xenacanthida |
| Family: | †Diplodoselachidae Soler-Gijon, 1997 |
| Genus: | †Lebachacanthus Soler-Gijon, 1997 |
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| Lebachacanthus senckenbergianus (Fritsch, 1889)
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Lebachacanthus is a genus of extinct xenacanth cartilaginous fish known from the late Carboniferous-Early Permian of Europe.[1] Well-preserved specimens, originally identified as Orthacanthus, are known from Meisenheim Formation in Germany.[2] During the late Paleozoic, xenacanths were the apex predators of freshwater ecosystems, preying on small amphibians.[3]
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- ^ Luccisano, Vincent; Pradel, Alan; Amiot, Romain; Pouillon, Jean-Marc; Kindlimann, René; Steyer, Jean-Sébastien; Cuny, Gilles (2022). Cavin, Lionel (ed.). "Systematics, ontogeny and palaeobiogeography of the genus Orthacanthus (Diplodoselachidae, Xenacanthiformes) from the lower Permian of France". Papers in Palaeontology. 8 (6). Bibcode:2022PPal....8E1470L. doi:10.1002/spp2.1470. ISSN 2056-2799.
- ^ Kriwet, J.; Witzmann, F.; Klug, S.; Heidtke, U. H. (2007). "First direct evidence of a vertebrate three-level trophic chain in the fossil record". Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 275 (1631): 181–186. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1170. PMC 2596183. PMID 17971323.